Denmark: job rotation, a tool to integrate jobseekers on the labor market

Job rotation, a system which allows businesses to recruit jobseekers to replace employees on training, is boosting the reinstatement of 8 in 10 jobseekers who take part, according to a study commissioned by Northern Jutland on the impact the measure is having in the region. (Ref. 120594)
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Because of the scarcity of data on the results of the job rotation system (whereby businesses can recruit jobseekers to replace permanent employees away on training, receiving a subsidy (jobrotationsydelse) covering training for the employee and remuneration for the jobseeker, who must have been unemployed for over 3 months – for at least 10 hours a week), the region ordered a study from the COWI consultancy firm. The researchers analyzed data for 687 jobseekers (73 percent of women) who parti

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