26-11-2010Economic monitor
The amount of hours worked in temp jobs increased by 3 percent in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the second quarter. Adjusted for seasonal variation, the index figure (2005=100) for the number of hours worked in stage A was 110.8, as against 107.6 in the previous quarter.
16-12-2010Web magazine
The employment participation rate among mothers with a non-western background is significantly lower than among native Dutch mothers, but since 2006, employment among women with a non-western background has also risen. Most of these women work between 28 and 35 hours a week.
23-12-2010Press release
The number of jobs of employees in the third quarter of 2010 was 13 thousand (0.2 percent) down on the third quarter of 2009.
21-12-2010Web magazine
Last year, the average annual wage increase of employees was 2.5 percent relative to 2008.
16-12-2010Web magazine
One quarter of employees in the private sector taking parental leave were partly or fully paid. With four in five, the proportion of employees on paid parental leave was significantly higher in the government sector and the care sector.
16-12-2010Press release
The seasonally adjusted Dutch unemployment figure in November 2010 stood at 409 thousand.
09-12-2010Web magazine
In the third quarter of 2010 there were 708 thousand self-employed people without personnel in the Netherlands, up 27 thousand on the previous year. The economic crisis slashed the number of self-employed without personnel in the second half of 2009.
09-12-2010Web magazine
In the third quarter of 2010, some 5.7 million employees in the Netherlands had a permanent employment contract. This is 111 thousand, or 1.9 percent, fewer than twelve months previously.
07-12-2010Web magazine
In the third quarter of 2010, one quarter of the Dutch population aged 15 to 64 years said they did not have or did not want a paid job of at least 12 hours a week.
25-11-2010Web magazine
In 2009, the most popular job among women was shop assistant and the most popular job among men was lorry driver. These jobs were also chosen in 1993.
30-11-2010Press release
301 thousand people aged under 65 years were claiming income support at the end of the third quarter of 2010.
30-11-2010Web magazine
Hourly wages of people with a non-western background working in the private sector tend to be lower than the wages of their native Dutch counterparts. Wage differences are smaller in the first than in the second generation.
27-08-2010Economic monitor
The number of hours worked in temp jobs increased by nearly 5 percent in the second quarter of 2010 compared to the first quarter.
25-11-2010Web magazine
In the second quarter of this year, 78 thousand people were added to the unemployment ranks in comparison to the previous quarter. The amount is smaller than in the second quarter of 2009, when the number of unemployed grew by 89 thousand.
23-11-2010Web magazine
In 2008, nearly 68 thousand employees went into retirement. The average age was 62.
18-11-2010Press release
The seasonally adjusted unemployment figure for October 2010 stood at 410 thousand, i.e. 2 thousand fewer than in September.
16-11-2010Web magazine
Nearly 1.7 million people aged 15 to 64 years in the Netherlands had a disability affecting their capacity to work in 2009. This is 15 percent of all 15 to 64 year-olds.
12-11-2010Press release
After correction for seasonal effects there were 126 thousand job vacancies in the Netherlands at the end of September 2010.
28-09-2010Web magazine
In recent years, the wage gap between men and women has gradually narrowed. Young men’s gross wages are on average approximately 10 percent higher than the wages of their female counterparts.
04-11-2010Web magazine
Over 297 thousand individuals aged under 64 claimed welfare benefits at the end of 2008. One in twelve of them found a job in 2009.
02-11-2010Web magazine
In 2010 the unions had 1.87 million members, 17 thousand fewer than in 2009. Union membership has remained fairly stable over the last 15 years.
26-10-2010Web magazine
The economic crisis pushed up unemployment in the Netherlands to 4.8 percent in 2009. This is still very low compared with the towering levels in the 1930s.
19-10-2010Web magazine
Childcare provided by day care centres, after-school care and voluntary care were the main types of childcare in 2009 for more than half of the 1.4 million households in the Netherlands with one or two working parents.
21-10-2010Press release
Adjusted for seasonal variation, 412 thousand persons were unemployed in September 2010.
15-10-2010Web magazine
Although the total social security debt has risen over the period 2002-2009, the number of debts has dropped by more than 100 thousand. The number of debts involving an amount of 2,500 euro or more has grown.
12-10-2010Web magazine
Collectively negotiated (CAO) wages were 1.3 percent higher in the third quarter of this year than in the same period in 2009. The increase is about the same as in the second quarter.
23-09-2010Press release
In the second quarter of this year, 63 thousand jobs of employees (0.8 percent) were lost compared to the second quarter of 2009.
16-09-2010Press release
386 thousand persons were unemployed in August 2010. Unemployment is obviously subject to seasonal variation. After correction for seasonal variation, 414 thousand persons were unemployed, a decline by 12 thousand relative to July.
02-09-2010Announcement
The average gross annual wage of an employee in 2008 approached 30 thousand euro.
02-09-2010Web magazine
In the period April 2009−April 2010, 69 thousand employees received part-time unemployment (WW) benefits. Nearly half of them were employed in the metal industry.
31-08-2010Press release
At the end of June this year, 300 thousand social assistance benefits were paid to persons under the age of 65.
28-05-2010Economic monitor
The Dutch number of hours worked in temp jobs dropped by more than 1 percent in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the fourth quarter of 2009.
19-08-2010Web magazine
At the end of last year, 1.4 million people, i.e. 12 percent of the population in the age category 15-64 received social assistance, unemployment (WW) or disability benefits.
19-08-2010Press release
In July this year, 449 thousand people were unemployed, i.e. 5.7 percent of the Dutch labour force.
13-08-2010Press release
Adjusted for seasonal variation, 115 thousand vacancies were unfilled at the end of June 2010.
27-07-2010Web magazine
In recent years, the number of people from Eastern European EU countries living in the Netherlands has risen rapidly, but relatively few receive social security or unemployment (WW) benefits. By the end of 2009, more than 1,000 WW benefits and more than 600 social security benefits were paid to nationals from Eastern European EU countries.
22-07-2010Press release
In June this year, 441 thousand persons in the Netherlands were unemployed, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force versus 4.9 percent in June 2009.
13-07-2010Web magazine
In March 2010, 100 thousand workers from EU countries in eastern Europe were employed in the Netherlands. This is 12 thousand more than twelve months previously.
13-07-2010Web magazine
Nearly one in six employees in the Netherlands who care for a relative suffering from a long-term illness or disability took leave to do so last year. Workers who care for a partner or child more often took leave than those caring for a parent.
09-07-2010Announcement
From 22 July onwards, Statistics Netherlands will publish unemployment figures for single months. Until now, the unemployment figure was a three-month average.
06-07-2010Web magazine
Last year, there were 1.6 million couples with at least one underage child in the Netherlands. In 77 percent of these families both parents worked.
06-07-2010Web magazine
Collectively negotiated wage rates in the Netherlands were 1.2 percent higher on average in the second quarter of 2010 than twelve months previously. This is the smallest rise since 2005.
29-06-2010Web magazine
In the period 1996–2009, the education level of women in the age category 25–35 has improved significantly.
24-06-2010Web magazine
Shelf stacking, delivering newspapers and shop assistant are the most popular jobs secondary school pupils do next to their study.
01-04-2010Web magazine
In the third quarter of 2009, nearly 400 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed; 24 percent managed to find new jobs of twelve hours a week or more within three months, as opposed to nearly 30 percent in the same period in 2008.
24-06-2010Press release
In the first quarter of this year, 156 thousand jobs of employees (2.0 percent) were lost compared to the first quarter of 2009. If seasonal effects are taken into account, 56 thousand jobs were lost relative to the fourth quarter of last year.
22-06-2010Web magazine
Between 2008 and 2009, 773 thousand people changed jobs, a decrease by more than 100 thousand relative to the period 2007-2008. Changing jobs often also implies a change of working environment.
17-06-2010Press release
In the period March-May 2010, the number of unemployed persons in the Netherlands averaged 437 thousand, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force versus 4.6 percent in the same period last year.
15-06-2010Web magazine
The employed labour force in the Netherlands included an average 156 thousand temp agency workers in 2009, 41 thousand fewer than in the previous year. This was the largest year-on-year decrease since 1996.
31-05-2010Press release
The number of people younger than 65 years in the Netherlands claiming income support rose again in the first quarter of 2010.
26-02-2010Economic monitor
The number of hours worked in temp jobs dropped by 2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 relative to the third quarter.
21-05-2010Press release
In the period February-April 2010, unemployment in the Netherlands averaged 459 thousand.
12-05-2010Web magazine
The labour participation of over-50s in the Netherlands has risen substantially in recent years. Among the over-65s, it has even doubled since 2001.
18-05-2010Web magazine
Under the National Survivor Benefits Act (Anw), 105 thousand benefits were paid to claimants in March 2010. This is 9 thousand fewer than twelve months previously.
12-05-2010Press release
The job vacancies in the Netherlands at 113 thousand at the end of March 2010, after correction for seasonal effects.
10-05-2010Announcement
On Wednesday 12 May 2010, Statistics Netherlands will publish a press release on job vacancies, with the outcomes of the vacancy statistics for the first quarter of 2010.
06-05-2010Press release
The share of employees in the Netherlands who say they want to work until they reach the age of 65 years has doubled in the space of four years: from 21 percent in 2005 to 42 percent in 2009
22-04-2010Press release
472 thousand people were unemployed in the Netherlands in the period January-March 2010.
20-04-2010Web magazine
In the last quarter of 2009, the number of work disability benefits has risen marginally. For the first time in almost seven years, more work disability benefits were granted than terminated.
15-04-2010Web magazine
Last year, 25 strikes were organized in the Netherlands. The number of lost working days involved was the lowest since 1985.
08-04-2010Web magazine
The number of 15 to 25-year-olds without starter qualification who are no longer attending education has dropped significantly over the past decade.
08-04-2010Web magazine
In the first quarter of 2010, collectively negotiated (CAO) wages were 1.6 percent higher than one year previously. Since early 2009, the increase in CAO wages was reduced by more than half.
01-04-2010Web magazine
The sickness absence rate among Dutch employees was 4.6 percent on average in the fourth quarter of 2009. This is slightly higher than in the same quarter in 2008, when it was 4.4 percent.
25-03-2010Press release
In the fourth quarter of last year, 147 thousand jobs of employees were lost compared to the fourth quarter of 2008, a reduction by 1.8 percent.
18-03-2010Press release
An average of 441 thousand people (5.7 percent of the labour force) were unemployed Netherlands in the period December 2009–February 2010, as against 4.1 percent one year previously.
11-03-2010Web magazine
Nearly one in twelve people in work would like to increase their working hours. Male part-timers more often want to increase their working hours than women and they appear to be more successful in achieving that too.
09-03-2010Web magazine
Unemployment had risen in all Dutch provinces last year relative to 2008. The most substantial increase was recorded in the province of North Brabant.
09-03-2010Web magazine
Mothers who work for 28 hours or more per week are more likely to be self-employed than women with no children living at home.
26-02-2010Press release
The amount of social security benefits to persons younger than 65 rose by 22 thousand in 2009.
23-02-2010Web magazine
Last year, 38 percent of employees were doing overtime on a regular basis. This percentage has hardly changed in recent years and also remained stable during the economic crisis.
23-02-2010Web magazine
Nearly 960 thousand people in the Netherlands were self-employed in 2009, of whom 630 thousand did not employ others. In spite f the economic crisis they hardly worked less last year.
18-02-2010Press release
An average of 430 thousand persons were unemployed in the period November 2009-January 2010, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force.
12-02-2010Press release
According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands, the seasonally adjusted number of unfilled job vacancies was 122 thousand at the end of December 2009, i.e. 6 thousand fewer than in the previous quarter.
21-01-2010Web magazine
In September 2009, there were 117 thousand workers from East European EU countries in the Netherlands, an increase by 5 thousand relative to one year previously. Although the rapid growth observed in the past two years has recently slowed down, the number of East European workers is still increasing.
04-02-2010Press release
As a result of the economic crisis, unemployment in the non-western population in the Netherlands has risen in 2009 for the first time since 2005.
26-01-2010Web magazine
Nearly 40 percent of people younger than 65 years claim the special benefit for surviving relatives (Algemene Nabestaandenwet or Anw) within one year of their partner’s death. Most Anw benefits are claimed by women aged 55 years and older, and by people with underage children.
21-01-2010Press release
According to figures from Statistics Netherlands, 410 thousand people on average were unemployed in the Netherlands in the period October- December 2009. This is the equivalent of 5.3 percent of the labour force. Twelve months previously this was still only 3.7 percent.
21-01-2010Web magazine
In the first quarter of 2009, there were nearly 630 thousand self-employed without personnel (zzp workers). Their number declined by more than 20 thousand relative to the third quarter of 2009.
12-01-2010Web magazine
