Skills and Labour Market Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Norway
Norway’s foreign-born population has tripled since 2000, and the share of migrants
among the population has seen one of the largest increases across the OECD, mostly
driven by labour migration from EU countries. Most migrants from non-EU countries,
in contrast, are refugees and their family members. High qualification levels and
labour market participation of the native-born raise the question of an adequate benchmark
for integration outcomes, especially for the low-educated refugees and their families.
Against this backdrop, Norway puts significant investment into integration, and a
number of recent reforms have been aimed at strengthening the system. This review,
the third in a series on the skills and labour market integration of immigrants and
their children, provides an assessment of these reforms and the remaining challenges.
It includes an overview of Norway’s integration services – and the many substantial
changes in recent years – as well as challenges in access and uptake of integration
offers, activation programmes and outcomes of native-born children of immigrants in
Norway. Earlier reviews in this series looked at integration in Sweden (2016) and
Finland (2018).
Published on November 28, 2022
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