The Danish labor market, 2000–2020

Torben M. Andersen
Additional contact information
Torben M. Andersen: Aarhus University, Denmark, and IZA, Germany

World of Labour, 2021, No 404v3, 404

Abstract: Denmark is often termed a “flexicurity” country with lax employment protection legislation, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. This model is not a safeguard against business cycles, but has coped with the Great Recession and the Covid-19 pandemic, avoiding large increases in long-term and structural unemployment. The pandemic has had severe effects due to restrictions and lockdowns, but the recovery and re-openings in late 2020 and spring 2021 have been strong, indicating that the labor market effects are mainly temporary. Recent reforms have boosted labor supply and employment. Real wage growth has been positive and responded—with some lag—to the developments in unemployment.

Keywords: flexicurity; business cycles; structural policies; youth unemployment; immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F44 J1 J6 J61 L1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/404/pdfs/the-danish-labor-market.pdf (application/pdf)
https://wol.iza.org/articles/the-danish-labor-market (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izawol:journl:2021:n:404

Access Statistics for this article

World of Labour is currently edited by Pierre Cahuc

More articles in World of Labour from LISER Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Olga Nottmeyer ().