New employment policy for Denmark

The expert committee comprises:

Chairman: Carsten Koch, Social Democrat, Chairman of the government’s employment council and former Minister of Taxation and Health.

Michael Rosholm, Professor at the Department of Economics and Business at Aarhus University 

Per Kongshøj Madsen, Professor at the Department of Economics, Politics and Public Administration at  Aalborg University, where he heads the Centre for Labour Market Research (CARMA).

Vibeke Jensen, Head of Recreational Affairs at Aarhus Municipality. 

The new committee will answer three questions: 

• How to secure an employment policy which helps unemployed people get permanent work as quickly as possible? 
• How to secure a meaningful employment drive which takes into account the individual unemployed person’s needs - without weakening the principle of making the unemployed available for the labour market?
• How to strengthen the cooperation between businesses and job centres, including how to secure an optimal job match in order to find the best qualified labour for businesses and to find permanent work for the unemployed?

Source: The Ministry of Labour