Meeting, 26 August 2026
Topics discussed at the first committee meeting included:
- Interpretation of the scope of the mandate
- Background note on labour immigration regulations
- Background note on statistics on labour immigrants
- Knowledge gathering and stakeholder engagement
Seminar, 21 September 2026
The internal seminar featured presentations from:
- Alan Manning, Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) and former Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee in the United Kingdom
- Arild Haffner Naustdal, Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion, and former head of the secretariat for the Committee on Labour Immigrants (NOU 2022: 18)
- Hege Nilssen and Sonja Skinnarland, Director General and Director of Work and Services, respectively, at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (Nav)
- Anne Mette Ødegård, Senior Researcher at Fafo
- Steinar Holden, Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo
- Knut Røed, Senior Research Fellow at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Committee meeting, 22 September 2026
Topics discussed at the second committee meeting included:
- Discussion of the outline for the report
- Review of the knowledge base and discussion of a possible external literature review
- Review of available statistics and discussion of possible requests for statistical data
- Presentation by Julia Skretting, Researcher at Statistics Norway, on how the macroeconomic model KVARTS can be used to analyse the effects of labour immigration on the Norwegian economy
- Discussion of a note from the secretariat on the organisation, application process and case processing in the immigration administration