The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment performance and the flexicurity model. It also presents...

Denmark showed strong performance owing to its stability-oriented policies, high growth rates, and low unemployment. Executive Directors noted that the Danish flexicurity model has worked well, and stressed the need for prudent fiscal policies. Executive Directors welcomed the outcome of the...

This paper analyzes the transmission of shocks and policies among and across the Nordic economies and the rest of the world. This spillover analysis is based on a pair of estimated structural macroeconometric models of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. We find...

This supplementary report examines selected background issues in Denmark using charts and tables. Economic growth accelerated sharply in 1994, following several years of steady but unspectacular expansion. It is projected to slow somewhat in 1995–96 but remain above potential. Unemployment,...