The fear that the tens of thousands of immigrants who come to Denmark will end up as a new underclass is unfounded, a new analysis shows.

Illustration: Tomas Østergren

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At first glance, the many thousands of foreigners who have poured into Denmark seem to be working in the typical low-wage jobs as couriers, for example, on hotel staffs, in restaurants, or in cleaning.

But that is far from the whole story, a new analysis shows – ’Foreign labor follows Danes up the wage ladder’ – from the think tank Kraka and the auditing firm Deloitte.