Financial and business services

Fewer hours worked in temp jobs

25-05-2012Economic monitor The amount of hours worked in stage A temp jobs was nearly 2 percent down in the first quarter of 2012 from the fourth quarter of 2011. The number of hours worked in stage A temp jobs declined for the third consecutive quarter.

Dutch economy shrinks by 1.1 percent

15-05-2012Press release According to the first provisional estimate, the Dutch economy shrank by 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year.

More hours worked in temp jobs

24-02-2012Economic monitor The amount of hours worked in stage A temp jobs was 1 percent up in the fourth quarter of 2011 from the preceding quarter. In the third quarter, the number of hours worked in temp jobs stage A had declined for the first time in nearly eighteen months.

Cancelled: Dutch borrow more and pay higher interest rates

23-02-2012Web magazine

Number of vacancies further down

15-02-2012Press release Adjusted for seasonal variation, there were 123 thousand unfilled vacancies at the end of December last year, i.e. 10 thousand fewer than one quarter previously.