Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in Denmark

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The Danish welfare state is together with its Nordic counterparts often presented as distinct. The model has traditionally been characterised as universalist, de-commodified, residence-based, non-contributory and relatively generous. Although social protection in Denmark is still primarily tax-financed and several benefits remain universal, the Danish welfare state has undergone considerable change over time and labour market participation has come to matter more for the social protection provided. Furthermore, migrants’ access to welfare in Denmark increasingly depends on citizenship and EU related worker status. Residence clauses have been adopted for specific benefits. Eligibility depends on years resided in Denmark, unless the applicant qualifies as a worker according to EU law and therefore can aggregate periods of residence from one or several other EU Member States. In sum, social protection in Denmark has become more multi-tiered and more EU commodified.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelIMISCOE Research Series
Antal sider13
ForlagSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Publikationsdato2020
Sider123-135
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2020
NavnIMISCOE Research Series
ISSN2364-4087

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
Unemployment benef in Denmark is a voluntary unemployment insurance scheme providing earnings-related benefits. The scheme is financed by contributions from employees and self-employed through membership payment and by the state through general taxes. There is no special unemployment assistance scheme in Denmark.

Funding Information:
This chapter is part of the project ?Migration and Transnational Social Protection in (Post)Crisis Europe (MiTSoPro)? that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union?s 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 680014). In addition to this chapter, readers can find a series of indicators comparing national social protection and diaspora policies across 40 countries on the following website: http://labos.ulg.ac.be/socialprotection/. Research assistance for this chapter from S?ren Lund Frandsen is gratefully acknowledged.

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.

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