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When you are unemployed and receive unemployment benefits in Denmark, you are entitled or obliged to accept an offer of “activation” (retraining). The purpose of activation is to improve your opportunities to find work.

The latest figures from Statistics Denmark show that the long lines of unemployed people get shorter and shorter. Unemployment has fallen by 900 from January to February. This means that unemployment is now 4.1 percent of the workforce, equivalent to 115,700 people.

Today’s unemployment figures are positive for the Danish economy. See the brand new figures from Statistics Denmark from January 2010 today.

One out of four Danes changes jobs every year, equivalent to that up to 800,000 Danes each year get a new job. That’s an advantage for the employee, the employer, and for the society, the Confederation of Danish Employers believes.

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (Liberal Party, Venstre) and Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Lene Espersen (Conservative Party, Konservative) have presented the government’s new program following Tuesday’s government reshuffle, including 10 concrete goals for Denmark up to 2020.

The figures for unemployment continued to rise over the last three months of 2009 with a further 1500 who lost their jobs.