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Denmark: more refugees and immigrants into work

Far too few refugees and immigrants in Denmark are in work, and there is broad agreement something needs to be done about it. Yet there is little support for the Prime Minister’s proposal to get refugees and immigrants to clean up Denmark’s beaches and fix swings in kindergartens.
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The Carsten Koch committee’s proposals

At total of ten proposed improvements to better integrate refugees and immigrants on family reunion into the labour market, including: 

  • Municipalities to be given more effective incitements for including businesses
  • Measures to be adapted the individual’s needs
  • No more than two weeks should pass from an immigrant arrives in a municipality until the first conversation is held
  • The integration programme should run a maximum of two years, down from three
  • Immigrants who are not in work at the end of the integration programme will be assessed by a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team
Major differences

There are major differences between Danish municipalities when it comes to getting newly arrived refugees into work or education, according to a comprehensive study commissioned by the online publication Ugebrevet A4. 

In one municipality nearly half — 45 percent — of refugees were self-sufficient one year after arriving. In other municipalities only one in ten are self-sufficient after a year. The national average is 23 percent.

Municipalities which do well are proactive from the start and instigate parallel offers — both language training, subsidised gym memberships and other measures depending on the family’s situation.

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