Ugebrevet A4, the newspaper of the LO union confederation, did an issue on the situation of the labor market for young Danish people. It shows that full-time contracts are becoming as scarce as they are in southern Europe: only 19 percent of people aged 15-24 have a full-time job, which means that Denmark ranks 21st out of 33 countries (latest Eurostat statistics). Even if the country ranks among the 5 first as regards the number of young people at work, the fact that 2 in 3 are working part-time apparently has a major collateral effect on the labor market as a whole. (Ref. 120656)
The advantages of part-time work. The rate of young people working part-time went from 48 percent in 1999 to 66 percent in 2012, placing Denmark second, after the Netherlands, in terms of the number of people aged 15-24 working part-time. The experts interviewed by Ugebrevet A4 say that, over the last decade, part-time jobs have been replacing full-time jobs in services and trade for instance. Why? Because of the flexible nature of all the young people called in as reinforcement during busy
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