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DANISH NEWS IN ENGLISH CPHPOST.DK VOL 20 ISSUE 03 24 February - 9 March 2017
NEWS How will we survive without our pastels at dawn?
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The immigrant within Most of Denmark’s favourite apples are foreign
EXPAT AMONG THE PIGEONS
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Internationals make up 12 percent of the workforce
BUSINESS Danish capital launches bold bid for the EMA
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The missing eggs Could some of the lost Fabergés be in Denmark?
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VER THE course of 2016, a record 336,840 international people worked in Denmark – 45 percent more than in 2008, according to jobindsats.dk. In total, internationals make up 12 percent of Denmark’s total workforce. Poland leads the way THE LARGEST group of foreign citizens employed in Denmark worked in the cleaning industry, where nearly 63,000 plied their trade in 2016. Second on the list was the industrial sector with over 44,000, followed by hotels and restaurants (40,945), trade (38,652), the health and social
sector (31,821), construction (31,602), transport (24,514) and education (21,344). Poland supplied the most international workers in Denmark with 47,728, followed by Germany (26,949), Romania (26,585), Sweden (20,436) and Lithuania (16,456).
in October 2016. Steen Nielsen, the deputy head of DI, praised last March’s three-party agreement, which encouraged more løntilskud (wage subsidies) and internships. Since then, refugee internships has jumped from 12 to 22 percent
Rapid refugee progress MEANWHILE, the number of refugees being employed in Denmark rose by 75 percent between March and November 2016, according to Dansk Industri (DI). When looking solely at refugee and family reunification cases approved for residence in 2014 and 2015, their employment rate was between 0.7 and 1.6 percent in 2015. But that rate rose steadily to 9.5 percent
Half ready to work JUST ONE year ago, only about 3 percent of refugees were assessed as being ready to go out into the workforce, but according to the Immigration and Integration Ministry, 51 percent are now ready. The other 49 percent are assessed, for reasons ranging from physical disabilities to post-traumatic stress, as being unable to immediately enter the job marketplace. (CPH POST)
High rent costs COPENHAGEN ranks 14th in the world for rent costs. In Europe, only Geneva, Zurich and London had higher prices. San Francisco topped the 2017 Rental Affordability Index, which is published by the British real estate index Nested, followed by New York, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Washington DC, Geneva, Sydney, Zurich and LA.
Digital ambassador IN A WORLD first, Denmark will appoint a digital ambassador responsible for networking with tech giants like Google and Apple. “These companies have become a new kind of nation, and we need to address that,” the foreign minister, Anders Samuelsen, told Politiken. “They influence Denmark as much as other nations.”
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