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Last year, 70 thousand people, nearly twice as many as in 2008, thought their chances of finding employment was so low that they have stopped looking for work altogether. Especially among 55 to...

Unemployment was 346 thousand on average in the second quarter of 2007. This is the equivalent of 4.6 percent of the labour force.

The number of income support benefits paid to people younger than 65 years has risen for the third quarter in a row.

Seasonally adjusted unemployment averaged 394 thousand in the fourth quarter of 2006, a reduction by 11 thousand relative to the period September-November 2006.

In 2020, enterprises, institutions and the higher education sector in the Netherlands spent nearly 18.4 billion euros on research and development (R&D), using own and hired personnel.

The teaching workforce in primary education is currently ageing. In the 2003/’04 school year, 11 percent of primary teachers were 55 years of age or over, as against 21 percent in 2017/’18.

In September 2020, there were 413 thousand unemployed, equivalent to 4.4 percent of the labour force.

By the end of last year, the Dutch economy was in the recovery stage. The situation was very different from the end of 2012, when the economy was in deep recession. This is shown by means of the...

An average 460 thousand people in the Netherlands were unemployed in the third quarter of 2004. After correction for seasonal effects total unemployment amounted to 460 thousand in this period.

The value of service exports to Germany stood at 11.1 bn euros in H1 2021, 7 percent lower than in H1 2020.

An outline of developments in the nine Dutch top sectors.

Female incomes are considerably lower than male incomes. On average, women received 56 percent of what men earned in 2007, the same as in 2003.

The number of people younger than 65 years in the Netherlands claiming income support rose again in the first quarter of 2010.

The share of working 60 to 65-year-olds more than doubled over the past decade and growth continued in 2012.

Estimating monthly figures on the Dutch labour force during the transition to a new survey design.

Young people’s willingness to buy a house has declined in recent months, but remained fairly stable among middle-aged persons, although lower than before the 2009 economic crisis.