Declining Home Ownership among Young Danish Adults
19.12.2011
The share of homeowners among young Danish adults has declined over the period 1985-1995, whereas changes have been modest since then. Results show that even after taking account of changes in socio-economic characteristics, home ownership has become less accessible to the lowest income groups. Read more...
Contribution of Enforced Language Training to the Labour Market Participation of Family Reunited Migrants
13.12.2011
Family reunited migrants have incentives to transfer their home skills to the distination country since enforced language training does not increase labour participation in the long run, the main challenge of the policy reform, and has a moderate positive effect on the earnings of family reunited migrants. Read more...
Upper Secondary Schools that Succeed
13.12.2011
Well-functioning upper secondary schools lay emphasis on teacher quality and quality in the instruction. They also attach importance to clear profiling of the school with a view to attracting and retaining pupils.
Home Care - Help for Self-help or Service-oriented Help?
18.11.2011
There may be benefits for the elderly and money to save for municipalities when the focus is on providing help for self-help in home care. But in practice there are barriers.
Economic Sanctions Towards Cash Benefit Recipients
05.11.2011
There has been a rise in the number of economic sanctions towards cash benefit recipients in Denmark.
This paper reports the findings of a study of rules and regulation surrounding economic sanctions, descriptive analysis of who get sanctioned, how the municipalities perceive and use sanction as a tool as well as how clients experience economic sanctions.
The teaching of bilingual pupils in Denmark and Sweden
15.10.2011
This report investigates differences and similarities in the Danish and Swedish approaches to the teaching of pupils of immigrant background, with a view to assessing what measures might improve immigrant pupils’ academic performance in Denmark.
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