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20% seems too high, but the difference is mostly due to people that unable or "unable" to work. They are not unemployed in the sense used here.


Quite a few people choose not to work (fathers and mothers of young children) is a good example. Apart from the oil, one of the bright lights in the Norwegian economy is the fact that a really high percentage of the population is working. If the number is 20% - then that's _really_ low.




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