OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
- ISSN: 1815199X (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/1815199X
The Labour Market Integration of Immigrants in Denmark
The labour market integration of immigrants has been a key issue both in the public debate and
on the government agenda in Denmark, triggered by unfavourable employment outcomes of immigrants –
the gaps in employment rates of immigrants compared to the native-born are among the highest in the
OECD – and a rapid rise of the immigrant population during the past twenty years. Prior to the 1980s,
immigration to Denmark was a very marginal phenomenon. Despite the rapid growth since then, with less
than 7% immigrants in the population, Denmark still has one of the smallest immigrant populations in
Western Europe...
JEL:
J7: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor Discrimination;
J62: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers / Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility;
J21: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor / Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure;
J8: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor Standards: National and International;
J61: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers / Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers;
J15: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demographic Economics / Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
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