From: “Shelter from the storm?” - Danish flexicurity and the crisis
Degree of discreation | Automatic | Discretionary |
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Policy area | ||
Macro-economic policy | Strong automatic stabilisers due to high tax-rates and income support to unemployed | Growth packages mainly focused on public investments and tax reductions |
Labour market policy | Rule-based system of active measures targeted at all unemployed recipients of transfer income (UI and cash benefits) | A number of minor adjustments to the various active measures. |
Initiatives to combat youth unemployment | ||
A wide coverage of income support systems in the form of unemployment insurance and cash benefits for non-insured unemployed | Shortening the duration of benefits from 4 to 2 years and tightening the criteria for regaining the right to benefits | |
“Acute packages” for LTU exhausting their right to benefits from unemployment insurance |