• Welfare

The Scandinavian model is well-known for its welfare benefits provided by the state. The system includes:

• Health insurance, free access to most of the healthcare services
• Child allowance until the age of 18
• Maternity benefit
• Holiday pay, for 30 working days per year
• Paid sick leave
• Unemployment insurance – being a member of the union, you can get up to the 90% of your salary for 2 years after employment (though the total amount cannot exceed 19.476 DKK per month)
• Free education, university scholarship.

•  Social and financial stability, security

• Flexicurity – the term describing the Danish labour market
• We have some good and bad news for you. The bad is, that you have to pay relatively high taxes in Denmark. But the good is, that you get a really impressive social network for it, plus you can trust the system that you get back what you paid the tax for in several forms of benefits.
• The Danish labour market is marked with the term “flexicurity” – enabling flexibility for employers, and security for employees. The model manages successfully to cope with the challenges of globalization and provides a steady economic growth and employment.

• Thanks to the feeling of security, there is a general trust among the Danes, not only towards the system, but towards other people too – according to a survey, 70% of the Danes claim that „most people can be trusted” (do you think so?). This attitude also explains phenomena such as why you can see so many infants sleeping in prams outside restaurants, while their parents are having lunch inside.

• Nature

If you are into skiing, you won’t find much fun inside Denmark, its highest point being at 170 metres above sea level. But most candidates prefer to choose it above other Scandinavian countries due to its temperate, continental weather, friendly green surfaces, relaxed landscapes – plus, you cannot get farther than 50 kilometres away from the sea. Its relatively warm weather is also thanks to the proximity of the Gulf Stream, which brings warm currents to the mainland as well.

• Family

Denmark is paradise for kids, with its family- and child-friendly facilities everywhere. On the other hand, you don’t have to meet with any judgemental looks if you are a woman above 40 and don’t have any kids, nor if you are divorced, if you are homosexual, and so on, because all of these private decisions are respected and regarded as equally right.