The Economics of Inclusion / National / 🇩🇰 Denmark
Original title: Dansk Økonomi, efterår 2025 – Kapitel V: Tilskyndelser af kommunal udligning
The Danish Economic Councils (DØRS) analyse how Denmark's municipal equalisation scheme shapes municipalities' financial incentives in employment policy (autumn 2025). Equalisation makes a municipality's gain from moving someone into work much smaller than the gain to public finances, and in most cases a municipality makes a net loss when an unemployed person moves into a fleksjob (subsidised job for people with reduced work capacity).
Original title: Handicap og beskæftigelse 2024
VIVE report by Vibeke Jakobsen, Mads Lybech Christensen and Christian Højgaard Mikkelsen (December 2025), commissioned by STAR. In 2024, 61% of people with disabilities in Denmark were employed versus 86% without; only 41% of those with a major disability worked. Employment gains since 2014 partly reflect more people with major disabilities in flexjobs with relatively few weekly hours.
Original title: Førtidspensionsreformen har ikke fået flere i ordinært job
ROCKWOOL Foundation research overview by Jeppe Elholm Madsen (May 2024), based on Madsen & Holm's study paper on Denmark's 2013 disability-pension reform for under-40s. The reform cut participants' pre-tax income by about 25% one year in (15% after four years); employment rose about 5 percentage points, but the effect disappears when flexjobs are excluded – no more people in ordinary jobs.
Original title: Sygdomsbyrden i Danmark – sygdomme
Report by the National Institute of Public Health (SDU) for the Danish Health Authority on the burden of 15 common diseases. Production loss covers absence from the labour market through sick days, disability pensions (førtidspension) and early death (2017–2018), relative to matched controls. Depression, low-back pain and neck pain each cost about DKK 17,970–25,680 million a year in extra lost production.