Mental ill-health costs the Danish economy around 3.4% of GDP every year through lost productivity, social benefits and healthcare, and poses increasing problems for the well-functioning of social and labour market policies. A few years into the Great Recession, the situation in Denmark is now characterised by a concurrence of high unemployment and high disability. Importantly, the share of mental disorders is very high among both unemployment and disability benefit claimants – at 30% and 45%, respectively – and even higher among people receiving a social assistance or long-term sickness benefit (55% and 70%, respectively). At the same time, people with a mental disorder face a considerable employment disadvantage, with a gap in employment rates of around 15 percentage points and an unemployment rate which is double the overall rate. On top of this, a large share of those who are employed struggle in their jobs, with four in five workers with a mental disorder reporting occasional reduced productivity at work compared with only one in three workers without such disorder.