Denmark: Government and social-democrats comparing jobplans to face the workforce shortage

Pensioners and students will earn more, active seniors will get tax abatements and compensation allowances for part-time workers will be reduced; these are the main elements in the government's plan to face the workforce shortage. The social democrats, who think that it is not ambitious enough, presented their own jobplan. (Ref. 080117)
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In November 2007, for the first time since 1974, the unemployment rate in Denmark fell down to 2.8%; however, during the second half of 2007, 66.000 job offers were not fulfilled, hence the emergency for the government to adopt a strategy to change the situation: its jobplan, published on January 21, 2008, plans to increase by 8.000 to 9.000 a year the number of Danish employees working full-time. Thanks to this plan, students will be able to work for 95.000 crows a year (€12.746,07) without ha

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