East European labour here to stay
07. feb. 2013 14.28 EnglishA further 43 per cent more workers have arrived in Denmark from Eastern Europe since 2008, according to figures published by national daily Jyllandsposten from the National Labour Market Authority's database, jobindsats.dk.
During the third quarter of last year, almost 47,500 people from 10 East European countries found jobs in Denmark.
More than a third of these, or 17,763 people, have been registered at a Danish address with a personal identification number since 2008 or earlier. In other words, they arrived in the country to work during the economic boom years and continued to live here.
Backing up this trend is labour market researcher Søren Kaj Andersen from the University of Copenhagen, who is finalising an extensive study of 10,000 businesses on the use of Eastern European manpower.
"It appears that Eastern Europeans have gained a firm hold in the Danish labour market throughout the crisis years. At least we can confirm that these people have not been first in line to lose their jobs," he said.