From 2010 to 2019, the employment rates in Iceland were slightly higher among the native-born population than among the foreign-born, except in 2016 and 2017. After the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, the difference became slightly more pronounced, with employment rates of **** percent and ** percent in 2021 among the native-born and foreign-born population, respectively.
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