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Do you have references regarding the "Denmark is loosing jobs at an astounding rate" statement? It doesn't seem in line with the fact that the unemployment rat

Do you have references regarding the "Denmark is loosing jobs at an astounding rate" statement? It doesn't seem in line with the fact that the unemployment rate has been dropping over the last couple of years, or that it is in fact lower than it was in the 1990s. I know the unemployment statistics doesn't necessarily give the true numbers, but you can't just state something like that without references.

mseebach 13y ago
http://www.altinget.dk/artikel/danmark-oplever-det-stoerste-jobtab-siden-2009 http://www.altinget.dk/artikel/danmark-oplever-det-stoerste-... The reason unemployment numbers look decent is partly that the numbers hide a larger number of people on "not-ready-for-work" benefits and partly the fact that the baby boomers are retiring. Pensioners are not considered unemployed.
- joakleaf 13y ago
  I wouldn't call a drop of 16000 in 2012 "astounding". It is 0.5% of the entire workforce. 6000 of those 16000 were from the public sector, so it was really just 10000 workplaces lost in the private sector in 2012 (Jan-Nov). If I look at the statistics at http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/Nyt/2013/NR350.pdf http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/Nyt/2013/NR350.pdf I see a drop of unemployed of 10000 since October 2012. I don't know if that number directly translates into 10000 new jobs of the kind that were lost in your article. But I think it is hard to determine if the 16000 mentioned in the article is just normal fluctuation over a 11 months. With that said, the 160000 jobs lost since 2008 is significant, but unemployment was at a record low at that time. From the graph (I linked to), it looks like most of those 160000 jobs were lost in 2008 and 2009. Do you have any numbers that do not mask pensioner's and "not- ready-for-work" people? It is hard make any actual judgment in any direction, if all the statistics are deemed untrustworthy or politically biased.
  - ThomPete 13y ago
    Of the entire workforce? You mean of the private workforce.
    - joakleaf 13y ago
      No. The entire workforce was 2818000 people in 2012 according to Wikipedia (http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbejdsstyrke http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbejdsstyrke). So an additional 16000 unemployed people constitute approximately 0.5% of the workforce. I don't think it makes sense to talk about a "private workforce" in this context, as the workforce consists of all people able to perform work.
      - ThomPete 13y ago
        It does make sense given that it's the private workforce that pays for the rest.

mseebach 13y ago

http://www.altinget.dk/artikel/danmark-oplever-det-stoerste-jobtab-siden-2009 http://www.altinget.dk/artikel/danmark-oplever-det-stoerste-... The reason unemployment numbers look decent is partly that the numbers hide a larger number of people on "not-ready-for-work" benefits and partly the fact that the baby boomers are retiring. Pensioners are not considered unemployed.

joakleaf 13y ago
I wouldn't call a drop of 16000 in 2012 "astounding". It is 0.5% of the entire workforce. 6000 of those 16000 were from the public sector, so it was really just 10000 workplaces lost in the private sector in 2012 (Jan-Nov). If I look at the statistics at http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/Nyt/2013/NR350.pdf http://www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/Nyt/2013/NR350.pdf I see a drop of unemployed of 10000 since October 2012. I don't know if that number directly translates into 10000 new jobs of the kind that were lost in your article. But I think it is hard to determine if the 16000 mentioned in the article is just normal fluctuation over a 11 months. With that said, the 160000 jobs lost since 2008 is significant, but unemployment was at a record low at that time. From the graph (I linked to), it looks like most of those 160000 jobs were lost in 2008 and 2009. Do you have any numbers that do not mask pensioner's and "not- ready-for-work" people? It is hard make any actual judgment in any direction, if all the statistics are deemed untrustworthy or politically biased.
- ThomPete 13y ago
  Of the entire workforce? You mean of the private workforce.
  - joakleaf 13y ago
    No. The entire workforce was 2818000 people in 2012 according to Wikipedia (http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbejdsstyrke http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbejdsstyrke). So an additional 16000 unemployed people constitute approximately 0.5% of the workforce. I don't think it makes sense to talk about a "private workforce" in this context, as the workforce consists of all people able to perform work.
    - ThomPete 13y ago
      It does make sense given that it's the private workforce that pays for the rest.