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• Declining Home Ownership among Young Danish Adults
  

  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.

  19 December 2011
• Contribution of Enforced Language Training to the Labour Market Participation of Family Reunited Migrants
  

  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.

  13 December 2011
• Upper Secondary Schools that Succeed
  

  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.

  13 December 2011
• Home Care - Help for Self-help or Service-oriented Help?
  

  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.

  18 November 2011
• Economic Sanctions Towards Cash Benefit Recipients
  

  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.

  5 November 2011
• The teaching of bilingual pupils in Denmark and Sweden
  

  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.

  15 October 2011
• Young Immigrants with broad social and cultural network have higher school performance
  

  Friends, support by the family and facilities offering help with homework appear to be of major importance to young immigrants. This is shown by an analysis from AKF, Danish Institute of Governmental Research.

  7 October 2011
• Mixed effects of contracting out public sector tasks
  

  Contracting out provides minor cost savings, but many studies contain insufficient documentation on whether or not savings have been achieved at the expense of service quality. This is shown by a new analysis from AKF, Danish Institute of Governmental Research.

  19 September 2011
• (Mis)managing employee motivation in education
  

  The perception of obligatory student plans as controlling is negatively associated with different types of employee motivation, indicating that motivation crowding happens. This is shown by a new analysis from AKF, Danish Institute of Governmental Research.

  16 September 2011
• Female teachers have higher self-efficacy and job satisfaction
  

  Female teachers have higher self-efficacy and job satisfaction. These gender differences are partly explained by the female teacher’s higher level of empathy.This is shown by an analysis from AKF, Danish Institute of Governmental Research.

  12 September 2011

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