Norway

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Employment:

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1. persons with a job but temporarily absent from work due to illness or injury, vacation or annual leave, maternity, paternity or parental leave until one year (unless it is still paid), educational or training leave until one year (unless it is still paid), absence without leave if this person has a job and a date of return, labour management dispute, bad weather or mechanical breakdown, etc.;
2. full- or part-time workers seeking other work during the reference week;
3. persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the reference week while subject to compulsory schooling, retired and receiving a pension, registered as jobseekers at an employment office or receiving unemployment benefits;
4. full-time or part-time students working full-time or part-time; e) paid apprentices and trainees;
5. participants in employment promotion schemes receiving pay by their employers;
6. unpaid family workers at work during the reference week or temporarily absent from work, if not seasonal work. h) volunteers and career members of the armed forces, conscripts and persons in civilian service equivalent to military service.

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1. persons on temporary lay-off without pay;
2. persons without work and currently available for work who have made arrangements to start a new job on a date subsequent to the reference week or who were trying to establish their own enterprise;
3. persons without work, available for work, but not seeking work during the reference week but awaiting answer from the employer, if seeking work five to eight weeks ago;
4. persons who were seeking work and available to work but were subject to compulsory schooling, retired and receiving a pension, if they were seeking work one to four weeks ago and were available to work within the next two weeks;
5. part- and full-time students seeking full- or part-time work, is they were seeking work one to four weeks ago and available to work within the next two weeks.

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1. risk or certainty of loss or termination of present job;
2. actual job is considered as a transitional job;
3. seeking a second job;
4. wish to have better working conditions (working or travel time, quality of work);
5. wish higher pay;
6. other reasons.

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