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More over-55s on holiday
The number of holidaymakers aged 55 and older has risen from 2.8 million in 2002 to 3.5 million in 2012 as the post-war baby boomer generation is ageing. These over-55s tend to go on holiday more...
More lorry journeys with cleaner engines
Lorry journeys by engine emission standard (European emission standard for lorries)
Women aged between 25 and 30 have higher hourly wages than men
The gross-wage gender gap was nearly 18 percent in 2012 which means that, on average, for each euro men earned, women earned 0.82 eurocents. Women in the age category 25-30 earned higher hourly wages...
Dutch economic growth at 1.8 percent in the third quarter of 2010
Dutch economic growth in the third quarter of 2010 reached 1.8 percent compared to the same quarter of 2009.
Economic growth 2.5 percent in first quarter
Dutch economic growth was 2.5 percent in the first quarter of 2007 compared with the same quarter last year.
Labour price index; index figures 2006=100, 2001-2013
Labour price index; wage costs per hour worked Branches SIC 2008
Election results Dutch Lower House, 1918-2006
Voters, turnout, total votes, invalid votes, valid votes and distribution of seats by political party in the Dutch Lower House
Spending in foreign EU webshops hit record high in 2020
In 2020, Dutch consumers spent a record amount of nearly 2.6 billion euros in foreign EU webshops.
Unemployment further up
According to the latest figures published by Statistics Netherlands, seasonally adjusted unemployment grew by 16 thousand in June 2013 to reach 675 thousand.
Employed labour force is ageing
The average age in the employed labour force has risen further in 2011 to just over 41 versus 36 in the early 1990s. Men in their fifties for the first time outnumbered men in their thirties.
Collectively negotiated wages 1.6 percent up in 2012
Collectively negotiated wages rose by 1.6 percent last year, i.e. 0.5 percentage points more than in 2011. The inflation rate over 2012 was 2.5 percent and has been above the increase in collectively...
Sharp drop in first year teacher training students
There has been a 20 percent drop in students entering teacher training at the hbo level over the last five years. Particularly the interest in training to become an elementary school teacher has...
Nearly 6 percent of Dutch dwellings uninhabited
On 1 January 2008 5.7 percent of the just over 7 million dwellings in the Netherlands were not officially inhabited. This does not mean that they are vacant, but that nobody is officially registered...
More than one in three employees prepared to work until the age of 65
By the end of last year, more than one third of employees indicated they were ready to work until the age of 65. Considerably fewer people (only 12 percent) were prepared to continue to work beyond...
Wo bachelors require more time than hbo bachelors
In the Netherlands, students can obtain a bachelor’s degree in higher vocational education (hbo) and university (wo). Hbo students have one year extra to obtain their bachelor’s degree than...