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- A lack of construction workers
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Benedikt Hilmarsson with one of the few Icelandic construction workers he has managed to employ, Ívar Örn Þráinsson (above)
- Facts
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- Just under 200,000 people are active in the Icelandic labour market.Around 11 percent are foreign.
- Foreign labour has grown by four percent since last year.
- The tourism sector employs 30,500 people. The number has grown by eight percent in one year. Never before have so many people worked in the Icelandic tourism industry.
- The construction industry has seen the largest growth over the past year.
- 14 percent more people now work in the construction industry compared to last year.
- Just over 13,000 people work in the construction industry.
- In August 2017 unemployment was at 1.9 percent.
- The number of foreigners in the Icelandic labour market
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Year Number 2007 16395 2008 18167 2009 16590 2010 15193 2011 14627 2012 14521 2013 15366 2014 16372 2015 18008 2016 20605 2017 24409*
*June 2017.
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