B2 · Upper Intermediate
The Danish Welfare Model
Explain how the Danish welfare model is financed, what citizens get and give in return, and discuss the challenges the model faces.
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- welfare state
- a welfare model
- welfare society
- tax-funded
- tax burden
- a taxpayer
- to fund, to finance
- to charge, to collect (a payment)
- VAT; value-added tax
- a universal benefit
- income-dependent
- means testing
- equal access
- universal coverage
- a user fee
- a childcare center
- safety net
- the Danish model
- collective agreement
- flexicurity
- unemployment benefit
- a labor supply
- an aging population
- social cohesion, the glue that holds a society together
- trust
- something in return
- to be entitled to
- redistribution
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