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At the request of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Statistics Netherlands’ Centre for Policy Related Statistics has calculated figures on the labour market history of people applying...

Statistics Netherlands announced today that the Dutch labour market showed signs of recovery in the second quarter of 2014.

In the four major Dutch cities, the labour participation rate of the male population was below the nationwide average.

The Dutch labour participation rate in 2008 was among the highest in the European Union (EU). In fact, the rate for Dutch men was the highest in the EU.

Custom-made tables on labour market flows of refugees in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2011. Commissioned by: VluchtelingenWerk Nederland.

Latest data on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 Decent work and economic growth: labour and leisure time. The themes under SDG 8.2 concentrate on how to give everybody who wants to work, the...

The unused labour force is relatively small in the Netherlands compared to other European Union member states. Last year, the unused labour force comprised 6 percent of the 15 to 75-year-old...

Custom-made tables on the relationship between labour market status and background characteristics of refugees in the Netherlands in 2011. Commissioned by: VluchtelingenWerk Nederland.

Labour costs in the Dutch private sector have risen at the same rate over the past decade as the average across the entire European Union. Between 2001 and 2011 Dutch labour costs per hour worked in...

After continuous growth over the past century, the potential labour force is about to decline. On 1 January 2007, there were 10 million Dutch residents in the 20–65 age bracket.

The labour force in the Caribbean differs from that in the Netherlands in a number of respects: relatively more people in the Caribbean (15- 74 years) are employed, and relatively more of them work...

In 2013, nearly 7.3 million Dutch nationals aged 15-64 had paid jobs for twelve hours a week or more, a decline by more than 100 thousand relative to 2012. The net labour participation rate was 66.1...

Four in ten unemployed young people in the Netherlands in the age category 15-26 who are not attending education or training programmes, are not looking for work and are not immediately available for...

The labour participation rate among 55 to 65-year-olds has increased considerably over the period 2001-2008.

This paper describes the mobility on the Dutch labour market between 1999 and 2008. In this paper the labour market is divided into 28 sectors. Commissioned by: Council for Work and Income

On 1 January 2010, the total potential labour force in the 27 countries of the European Union numbered 307 million persons. This is 61 percent of the total population of the EU and is 20 million...

Statistics Netherlands announced today that unemployment rose by 3 thousand people in April. This has slowed down the rise in unemployment at the beginning of the year. It is not the result of more...

Between 1996 and 2008, the gross labour participation rate of 50 to 65-year-olds has risen from 42 to 58 percent.

The labour participation rate for Dutch women is the highest in the European Union (EU).

In 2005, the number of people in the Netherlands claiming the three most important types of social security benefits declined. The total number of labour disablement benefits dropped by over 60...

This reports describes the electrical engineering and machine construction sectors in the Netherlands, labour productivity in these sectors and a number of labour productivity determinants....

As fewer people actively engaged on the labour market in February, unemployment declined. The number of employed was about the same as in January.