Search results
Page 273 of 291
Collectively negotiated wage rates up 1.3 percent in 2010
Wage rates negotiated under collective labour agreements (cao’s) were 1.3 percent higher in 2010 than in the previous year. This increase is significantly smaller than in 2009, when wages rose...
More people adopt healthier lifestyle
In recent years, the Dutch have adopted a more healthy lifestyle. The percentage of smokers and heavy drinkers has marginally declined.
More cases for administrative law judges in 2011
Administrative law judges in the Netherlands disposed of 5 percent more cases in 2011 than in 2010. In one in five cases the judge awarded in favour of the plaintiff. One in three cases were...
Disposable household income lower in 2010
The disposable household income in 2010 was lower than in 2009. After correction for inflation, the decline was 1.4 percent, but consumer spending was 0.4 percent higher.
Considerable exports growth
In April, the volume of goods exports was nearly 17 percent up on twelve months previously. As a result, the volume of exports has increased further in the first months of 2010. It should be taken...
Wind energy cost-ineffective without public financial support
As yet, the production of wind energy is still cost-ineffective, but public financial support compensates for the losses.
Reinoud - Head of Methodology
About Reinoud Head of Methodology
Household consumption over 1 percent up in December
Dutch household consumption was 1.2 percent up in December 2017.
Productivity, innovation and wage policies in family firms: Empirical evidence from Belgium and the Netherlands
Dissertation on why family firms are more or less productive than non-family firms.
Manufacturing output prices up by 3 percent
Prices of Dutch-manufactured products were 3 percent up in June 2017 from the same month last year.
Consumer prices 1.3 percent up in July
The Dutch consumer price index (CPI) was 1.3 percent higher in July 2017 than in July 2016.
Retail turnover 5 percent up in January
Dutch retail trade achieved 5 percent turnover growth in January year-on-year.
EU countries buying more clothing from Asia
EU-28 imports of clothing in 2015 amounted to 81 billion euros, with over 77 percent made in Asia.
Pitfalls and safety nets in publishing open data
Increasing amounts of government data are published online as open data.
Gross fixed capital formation by enterprises; monthly
The purpose is to give quick information about developments in the volume of gross fixed capital formation in tangible assets by Dutch enterprises, households and non-profit institutions.
Economic growth in the eurozone
The economies of the eurozone expanded by 0.3 percent in the second quarter of 2015 compared to the first quarter, according to the most recent first calculations by Eurostat.
Private sector optimistic; employment expected to grow
At the beginning of Q2, the mood across the Dutch private sector remains largely positive.
Dutch manufacturers more optimistic
According to Statistics Netherlands (CBS), confidence among Dutch manufacturers improved in March.
Half of the Surinamese Dutch population is second generation
Nearly half of all Dutch people of Surinamese origin were also born in the Netherlands. These are primarily the children of Surinamese people who migrated to the Netherlands in the 1970s.