Sven Åke Bjørke

What if the Norwegian oil economy is a bubble?

Two hundred and fifty thousand Norwegian jobs depend on oil. These jobs are expensive, require high technical skills and place upward pressures on national salary levels ( Norwegian manufacturing wages are 70 percent higher than the EU average).

October 7, 2013

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