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> The problem is that that model keeps a lot of people outside the working market because their skills simply aren't worth the salaries they would have to get because of this model.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a lot of people", but Denmark has one of the highest employment rates among OECD countries, so it's actually doing great at keeping people in employment (comparably).

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/income-and-work/em...

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Yeah please see how many people work in the public sector and you start to realize the problem. Also as with most other countries the way employment is measured it's usually based on who is deemed available for the job market. In Denmark a lot of people simply stop being part of the statistics after a while even if they are in theory available for the job market.

Fever and fever people in the private sector providing for an increasing public sector and an increasing senior population.

Denmark pays for it's gigantic wellfare system via income taxation and through a number of taxes on goods (180% on cars for instance)

The current situation right now is that public sector while still growing the public sector year over year is now beginning to cut from areas it used to held almost holy. (Education for instance)

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