Non-EU citizen working as salaried PhD in Denmark

Hi,

you will not meet the requirements for being eligible for unemployment benefits, due to two things:

• Your current residence permit do not allow you to take any job with one days notice. (You will need a new/extension of permit, so in legal terms you can not take any job with one days notice).
• After Phd you are only allowed to work 20 hours per week. For being elgible for unemployment benefits you must be able to work full time. And I also think that your current permit state that in the jobsearch period you are only allowed to look for/search for job, but not to work.

You could consider to apply for establishment card, after your Phd. Read more here.

Let me know if you have further comments.

Best regards,

Anders Weber, A-kasser.dk