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This title was first published in 2000: The Nordic Council and the
Nordic Council of Ministers decided in 1994 to initiate and finance
a comparative study to understand better the structure and
development of poverty in five Nordic countries, (Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The main question posed is how the
number of people living with low incomes has changed over time and
what characterizes such households.? Since no official poverty line
has been defined in the Nordic countries, the comparative study
examines a set of different definitions of poverty and analyzes the
change in poverty rates and poverty composition in light of those
different definitions.
This title was first published in 2000: The Nordic Council and the
Nordic Council of Ministers decided in 1994 to initiate and finance
a comparative study to understand better the structure and
development of poverty in five Nordic countries, (Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The main question posed is how the
number of people living with low incomes has changed over time and
what characterizes such households.? Since no official poverty line
has been defined in the Nordic countries, the comparative study
examines a set of different definitions of poverty and analyzes the
change in poverty rates and poverty composition in light of those
different definitions.
This book contributes important new insights into how deployment on
international military missions affects soldiers and their lives.
Using both quantitative data and in-depth interviews, the authors
provide a longitudinal perspective covering the participants in
these missions before, during, and after deployment on a large
range of life outcomes. The research centres around four key
themes; who are the men and women who choose to be deployed; why do
they choose to be deployed; what challenges do these soldiers face
before, during, and after returning home from a mission; and what
are the consequences of deployment for the soldiers' individual
lives? Danish soldiers provide an illustrative study and data is
drawn from administrative registries and is supplemented with
broader surveys of present and former soldiers, in-depth interviews
of parents and other relatives, and support group professionals.
Using specifically constructed datasets and comparing these
soldiers with relevant control groups, this book offers a unique
analysis of the impact of deployment on important issues such as
personal finances, the labour market, criminal activity, smoking
and drinking, and overall health. Mapping a full portrait of the
men and women who choose to be deployed, and explaining both their
initial motivations, this book highlights the challenges they face
before and during deployment and upon returning home.
The purpose in this paper is to summarize existing evidence on
welfare dependence among immigrants in Denmark and to supply new
evidence with focus on the most recent years. Focus is on
immigrants from non-western countries. The paper contains an
overview of the background regarding immigration in recent decades
followed by a survey of relevant benefit programmes in the Danish
welfare state. Existing studies focus on both macro analyses of the
overall impact from immigration on the public sector budget and on
micro oriented studies with focus on specific welfare programs.
Existing studies focus on the importance for welfare dependence of
demographic variables, on the big variation between countries of
origin and on the importance of cyclical factors at time of entry
and during the first years in the new country. Evidence from the
most recent years reinforce the importance of aggregate low
unemployment in contrast to fairly small effects found from policy
changes intending to influence the economic incentives between
welfare and a job for immigrants.
In cross-country poverty studies Denmark, like the other Nordic
countries, stands out with low rates of poverty incidence and
duration. The purpose in the present paper is to show that this is
the net outcome of very different poverty profiles between natives
and immigrants. We describe and analyse the annual incidence of
poverty 1984-2007 separately for natives and for immigrants from
Western and non-Western countries using panel data for the whole
population. We further describe entry and exit rates relative to
poverty and persistence of poverty for these three population
groups. Finally, we calculate a set of indicators of income
mobility and inequality for immigrant and native population groups.
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