Denmark
Strategies for youth employment
- Strategies for youth employment
- Yes
Youth employment strategy planned in the next 2 years
- Discussions within the government
- Yes
- Consultations with national-level stakeholders (e.g. employers’ and workers’ associations, youth councils, etc.)
- Yes
- A draft strategy already exists
- No
- Other (please specify)
- No
Countries with national action plans for youth employment
- Monitoring framework (timeline and activity/outcome indicators, e.g. youth labour market indicators)
- Yes
- Funding (indicative budget to implement the plan)
- Yes
- Institutional responsibilities (e.g. ministries/agencies in charge of specific planned activities )
- Yes
- Other, specify
- Yes
Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Public funding for the national youth employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
The Ministry of Employment serves as the main coordinating authority and overall budget holder for the Youth Pledge. While the Ministry oversees the initiative, specific measures are implemented in collaboration with other relevant ministries, including the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Children and Education, and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing, depending on the thematic focus of each initiative. In addition, the Ministry of Employment is directly responsible for managing the budget related to the Agreement on More Young People in Leisure Jobs, which supports youth employment through expanded access to part-time work opportunities.Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Youth in the national development / employment strategy
- Yes
Additional information:
The Youth Pledge targets approximately 43,000 young people aged 15 to 24 who are not in education or employment. However, the initiatives are broader in scope, also supporting young people aged 25 to 29 who may require additional assistance. The Agreement on 'More Young People in Leisure Jobs' focuses on youth aged 13 to 17, aiming to strengthen their early labour market engagement through part-time employment opportunities. In addition, young people under 30 without vocational education are a defined target group under the Act on Active Employment Services (Lov om en aktiv beskæftigelsesindsats, LOV nr 548 af 07/05/2019). This law provides the legal foundation for tailored employment services targeting vulnerable youth. Furthermore, the Consolidation Act on Municipal Provision for Young People Under 25 (Lov om kommunal indsats for unge under 25 år, LBK nr 1301 af 04/09/2020) requires municipalities to establish municipal youth guidance units. These units are responsible for delivering coordinated, cross-sectoral efforts that integrate education, employment, and guidance services, ensuring a comprehensive and individualized support system for young people.Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Countries with national goals for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
The overall aim of both the Youth Pledge and the Agreement on "More Young People in Leisure Jobs" is to reduce the number of unemployed young people by offering targeted, age-specific support and strengthening young people's connection to the labour market.Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- Countries with quantitative targets for youth employment
- No
Policy areas in national youth employment strategies
- Macroeconomic and Sectoral policies
- Yes
- Enterprise Development
- No
- Education, Training and skills development
- Yes
- Labour Demand
- Yes
- Labour Law and Legislation
- Yes
- Labour Market Policies
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Social partners' inclusion in the youth employment strategy
- Workers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Informed
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Employers
- Implementation of youth employment strategies/programmes (e.g. social partners as official implementers of the strategy or programme)
- Fully involved
- Assessment of youth employability (alignment of youth qualifications and skills to labour market needs)
- Fully involved
- Monitoring and evaluation of youth employment interventions (e.g. active labour market programmes)
- Consulted
- Awareness raising, marketing and promotion of youth employment (e.g. campaign to promote youth employment)
- Fully involved
- Formulation of youth employment strategies (e.g. national action plan for youth)
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- Development of youth employment programmes (e.g. sectoral programme with a clear target to employ X number of youth)
- Fully involved
Youth-led organizatios' inclusion in the national strategy
- Fully involved
- Yes
- Partially involved (only for some elements of the strategy)
- No
- Consulted
- No
- Informed
- No
- Not involved
- No
Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Countries with national partnerships for youth employment
- Yes
Additional information:
A central tenant of the The Youth Pledge is a framework for cross-sectoral partnerships between the state, workers and employee unions, civil society groups and companies. The central idea behind the partnerships is to bring together all responsible actors in society to help the roughly 43.000 without no employment and education to come closer to employment compared to before.Inclusiveness of vulnerable groups in national strategies
- Women
- Yes
- Migrant Workers
- Yes
- NEETs
- Yes
- People with disabilities
- Yes
- Low skilled workers
- Yes
- Rural workers
- Yes
- Other (please specify)
- No
Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- Youth employment strategies and international cooperation
- No