This case describes how Denmark balance the effects of globalization, including outsourcing and labor movement with its social welfare proposals. Reforms in the past two decades went unemployment, contributed to the formation of a new company, and to put the country at or near the top of international surveys on the ease of doing business. The case describes how the Danes have forged a consensus that has embraced international trade and outsourcing, supporting continuous improvement of skills in the workplace. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, balancing short-term response to the global economic slowdown against the long-term planning for the Danish labor market and the macroeconomy. Denmark can keep their borders open to the free movement of goods, services and labor while maintaining the breadth of his proposals being? "Hide
by Arthur A. Daemmrich, Benjamin Kramarz Source: HBS Premier Case Collection 24 pages. Publication Date: March 4, 2009. Prod. #: 709015-PDF-ENG
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