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Approaching youth unemployment in Denmark: Focus on education
13 May 2015Ida SynnestvedtHead of SectionMinistry of Employment - Denmark
Key figures - Denmark
Population 5.7 million Labour force: 2.9 million
Unemployment (December 2014)All age groups Benefit recipients in total: 246,000 Ready for a job: 129,00Age 16-29 Benefit recipients in total: 72,800 Ready for a job or an education: 30,300
Unemployment rate development 2008-14
April 19, 2023
Ministry of Employment
Danish Agency for Labour Market and
Recruitment- 3 decentralized labour
market offices
94 integrated job centres for all job
seekers - Full responsibility of the
municipality
27 unemployment
insurance funds
Government
98 Municipalities
98 social welfare offices
Youth Guidance Centres
The Danish approach to youth unemployment - keywords Active labour market policies
Early intervention / activation and individually tailored efforts
Focus on education and upgrading of skills and qualifications
Social safety net / income security (cash benefits and unemployment insurance)
Since 2014: An explicit focus on young persons under the age of 30
The cash benefit reform
Entry into force on 1 January 2014
Explicit focus on young people by dividing unemployed persons into 2 categories:
Unemployed under the age of 30 without an ordinary education
Unemployed above the age of 30 (and those under 30 with an education)
Education: The key to labour market integration
Young persons under the age of 30 receive an education offer (compulsory to accept)
As not all young persons have the same prerequisites, they are divided into three groups:
Clearly ready for education
Ready for education within one year
Ready for activation (i.e. not ready for education within one year)
Thorough visitation1. Contact with the job centre
Final visitation after 3 months
Clearly ready for education
In special circumstances ready for activation
1. Interview after one week
C. Initiative
Ready for education
Ready for activation
A. Education offer
B. reading, writing & calculating test. Upgrading of skills if necessary.
Continuous follow up
Activation measures – young persons ready for education within one year
Upgrading of skills and qualifications
Short internships in educational centres
Mentoring
Practical work training in enterprises
Activation measures – young persons ready for activation
Coordinating caseworker at the job centre
Close and regular follow-up
Upgrading of skills and qualifications
Short internships at educational centres
Mentoring
Practical work training in enterprises
Positive effects from mentoring Effect evaluation based on an experiment in 13 municipalities in
2012-2013
2,593 young persons ready for activation* participated
Half the participants met with a mentor 1,5 hours per week, the other half did not
After one year, 16% of the participants with mentor support had enrolled in an educational programme
Only 12% of the participants without mentor support had enrolled in an educational programme
* Before the entry into force of the cash benefit reform in 2014, the term ”ready for activation” did not exist, the equivalent was ”match group 2”.
Building bridge to education
Cross-sectoral initiative: The young unemployed persons receive activation offers at a VET institution
Upgrading of basic skills in reading, writing and calculating
Enterprise training
Short internships at different VET educations
Mentor for all young persons through the entire period
Effect evaluation shows positive results
Economic incentives to begin an education
The cash benefit reform has changed the benefit system for young persons without an ordinary education.
Benefits for this group are called ”education benefits”
Benefits reduced to the same level as the state educational grant (SU)
Cash benefits:1,450 Euros - education benefits:800 Euros
Young persons ready for activation entitled to a supplement raising the amount to the equivalent of cash benefits
Is the reform working?
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Thank you very much!
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