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The law entitles employees who become disabled to a benefit replacing their wages when they become long-term disabled, e.g. for more than one year.

Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 Zero hunger. SDG 2 aims to end hunger across the world, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.

Dutch consumers spent 1.1 percent more in February 2020 than in February 2019.

Measure for the average number of benefits in a given period, calculated as the number of days in a year in which benefits were paid divided by the number of working days in that year.

A general compulsory insurance for the entire population that provides people with an income from the AOW entitlement age. In the Dutch social security system this is a social insurance.

Goods and services provided to households, based on social security legislation. These are mainly financed by premiums, and seen as government consumption rather than income transfers.

An insurance an employer has with a pension fund or insurance company in order to provide the employees with a pension to supplement the benefits under the General Old Age Pension Act (AOW).

Government body responsible for carrying out social security provisions such as the General Old Age Pension Act (AOW), the General Survivors Pension Act (ANW) and the General Child Benefits Act (AKW).

Economic situation is improving

The Dutch economy saw a growth of 1.4 percent in the third quarter of 2004 compared to the third quarter of 2003. This is the highest growth rate in three years. Employment decreased a little less in...

According to Statistics Netherlands’ Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation in September was about the same as in August. Economic recovery has come to a virtual standstill over the last...

According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation is slightly less favourable in January compared to December.

Globalisation and digitisation make it increasingly difficult to measure the economy.

The classification of educational programs by level and field used by Statistics Netherlands since 1978 developed for use in statistics and research and for administrative purposes in the Netherlands.

Subsidy on the total wage sum or the number of employees. Or subsidies for employing certain categories of people, such as physically disabled or long-term unemployed people. Also subsidies on the...

Seasonally adjusted unemployment in the Netherlands stood at 469 thousand in February 2012, i.e. 5 thousand below the level in January 2012. In January, unemployment had still increased.

These include the law on industrial accidents of 1901 and 1921, the law on accidents in agriculture and horticulture of 1922-1967, the law on invalidity (since 1919), the law on industrial disability...

Record number of immigrants (235 thousand) and emigrants (154 thousand) in 2017, highest net migration (81 thousand).

Adjusted for seasonal variation, unemployment in the Netherlands numbered 691 thousand people in February 2014, 13 thousand more than in the preceding month. In December 2013 and January 2014,...

Figures released by Statistics Netherlands today show that after correction for seasonal effects, there were 109 thousand unfilled job vacancies at the end of June.

The total number of hours worked in temp jobs increased by 2.9 percent in the second quarter of 2016.

The ratio between the number of cases of sick leave started in the observation period and the number of employees. The duration of the observation period influences the reporting frequency which...