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The Danish labor market, 2000–2016

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  • Torben M. Andersen

    (Aarhus University, Denmark, and IZA, Germany)

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Denmark is often highlighted as a “flexicurity” country characterized by rather lax employment protection legislation, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the wake of the Great Recession, high job turnover and wage adjustments worked to prevent long-term and thus structural unemployment from increasing. While many have been affected by unemployment, most unemployment spells have been short, which has muted the effects on long-term and youth unemployment. Recent years have seen a sequence of reforms to boost labor supply and employment, including measures targeting the young, the elderly, and immigrants.

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  • Torben M. Andersen, 2017. "The Danish labor market, 2000–2016," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 404-404, November.
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