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Dutch manufacturers less positive
Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has deteriorated in September 2019.
Manufacturing output over 4 percent up in February
The average daily output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 4.2 percent up in February compared to the same month last year.
Producer confidence hardly changed
Producer confidence among Dutch manufacturers has hardly changed in December 2019.
GDP growth rate remains 0.4 percent in Q3 2017
According to the second estimate conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS), GDP showed 0.4 percent growth in Q3 2017.
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...
Dutch manufacturers remain optimistic
According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), confidence among Dutch manufacturers improved slightly in January. They were considerably more positive about their stocks of finished products and their...
Average weekly working hours hardly changed in recent years
The employed labour force in the Netherlands comprised nearly 7.4 million people in 2010. On average, they worked 34.4 hours a week versus 36.7 hours in 1996.
Business services monitor: second quarter 2009
Following a long period of growth, business services turnover fell for the first time in the second quarter of 2009. Turnover growth rates in the various branches differed strongly from those in the...
Robust increase number of vacancies
The number of unfilled vacancies increased by 37 thousand in the third quarter of 2005. Corrected for seasonal effects, there were 174 thousand open vacancies at the end of September 2005.
The Netherlands and the Kyoto target
The Netherlands has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 4 percent a year in the period 2008-2010 relative to the Kyoto base year, whereas the target is 6 percent. So emissions have to...
Economic situation improves further
The economic situation at the end of November was slightly better than at the end of October. Improvements outnumbered deteriorations. The heart of the scatter in the Business Cycle Tracer moved to...
Marginal increase workers from Bulgaria and Romania
Since 1 January 2014, people from Bulgaria and Romania no longer need a work permit if they want to work in the Netherlands. As a result, the number of Bulgarian and Romanian job-seekers coming to...
Savings in groundwater and tap water use
In spite of the increase in the population, the amount of tap water used by Dutch households hardly changed in the period 1990-2009.
Nearly 178 billion euro in share market value up in smoke
Around 178 billion euro of the value Dutch companies on the Amsterdam stock exchange disappeared into thin air in the first nine months of 2008.
Unemployment further down
In the period March-May 2010, the number of unemployed persons in the Netherlands averaged 437 thousand, i.e. 5.6 percent of the labour force versus 4.6 percent in the same period last year.
Manufacturing output down
In the period November-December 2004 manufacturing output was 0.4 percent down on the period September-October. Turnover of Dutch manufacturing industry rose by 11 percent in December 2004 compared...