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Relatively more women unemployed in the course of time
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.
Further decrease in job vacancies
After adjustment for seasonal effects, 113 thousand jobs were vacant at the end of March 2010 in the Netherlands, 11 thousand fewer than at the end of December.
From unemployment benefit to a permanent job? People who stopped receiving unemployment benefit in 2006, by labour market dynamics in 2006-2008 (Dutch only)
Paper and erratum. The results in this report are part of a study on people who start and stop claiming unemployment benefit. This report contains figures on people who stopped receiving...
Lower educated people more pessimistic about finding jobs
In the third quarter of 2009, more than 40 thousand people, i.e. 5 thousand more than one year previously, would like to have paid jobs, but were not actively seeking, because they thought their...
Income support benefits continue to rise
The number of income support benefits paid to people younger than 65 years has risen for the third quarter in a row.
Number of job vacancies almost unchanged
After adjusting for seasonal effects, 128 thousands jobs were vacant in the Netherlands by the end of September 2009. This virtually equals the number vacant at the end of June.
The Business Cycle Tracer: leading, coincident and lagging indicators
Since 2005, Statistics Netherlands has been monitoring the state of the Dutch business cycle with the aid of the Business Cycle Tracer (BCT). The BCT is based on 15 indicators. The individual changes...
Inflow of Eastern European workers petering out
In June 2009, there were 104 thousand workers from Eastern European EU member states in the Netherlands, about as many as in June 2008. The sharp increase in recent years has almost completely come...
Higher labour participation rate over-55s
The labour participation rate among 55 to 65-year-olds has increased considerably over the period 2001-2008.
Labour shortage past its peak
Tension on the Dutch labour market remained high in 2008. The period of fast increasing labour shortage seems to be over, though, and the first signs of an increasing labour supply can be seen...
Care-providing duties no longer prevent women from working
The number of women unable or not prepared to work, because they have to look after their families has almost been reduced by half from 735 thousand in 2001 to 373 thousand in 2007.
Increasing labour market participation by young people
Since 2004, the proportion of employed among non-school going young people has increased. Young people with a basic qualification benefited more from the booming economy than those without a basic...
Unemployment falls further
An average 307 thousand people were out of work in the Netherlands in the period August-October 2007. This is the equivalent of 4.0 percent of the labour force.
Steady fall in income support benefits
The number of people aged under 65 claiming income support benefit fell by 7 thousand in the second quarter of 2007. 290 thousand people were claiming income support at the end of June 2007.