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The number of jobs of employees was 147 thousand lower in the fourth quarter of 2009 than one year previously, a decrease by 1.8 percent. In the third quarter of last year, 139 thousand jobs were...

Mark-up, barriers to entrepreneurship, trade and investment, employment protection legislation and state support broken down by country

In 2006, the public sector spent 1.7 billion euro (5 percent of total spending on education and 0.3 percent of the GDP) on apprenticeship training programmes and other combinations of education and...

Real spendable household income fell again in 2004. Enterprises made more profits.

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...

An agreement between two parties: one party, the employee, agrees to work for the other party, the employer, for a weekly number of hours in return for a wage.

The Internationalisation Monitor describes trends in internationalisation and their consequences for the Dutch economy

In 2014 public expenditure on defence declined by 191 million euros to 7.4 billion euros. Dutch defence expenditure has shown a downward trend for the past five years, in spite of a slight increase...

Last year, government expenditure on foreign policy amounted to 16 billion euro, a decrease by more than 9 percent relative to 2008. The decrease is mainly due to one-off, lower contributions to the...

The number of jobs of Dutch employees was down by 140 thousand in the third quarter of 2009 on the year before.

In the first quarter of this year, 156 thousand jobs of employees (2.0 percent) were lost compared to the first quarter of 2009. If seasonal effects are taken into account, 56 thousand jobs were lost...

The national debt amounted to nearly 254 billion euro by the end of last year, 2 billion euro down on the end of 2006.

The Dutch economy relies to a great extent on multinationals and large companies which operate worldwide.

Dutch economy grew by 1.5 percent in 2005, but taking inflation into account, household incomes declined once again.

The Netherlands has a budget surplus of nearly 3 bn euros for the first time since the global financial crisis.

Spending on health care and welfare in the Netherlands amounted to 65.7 billion euro in 2006. This is 4.4 percent more than in 2005.

In 2003 the real spendable income of households decreased for the first time in ten years. Corporate profits shrank but there were higher profits in banking. The budget deficit went up, mainly caused...

Current transactions and balancing items of economic sectors Sectors, resources and uses, balancing items

Output, intermediate consumption, value added and income components of economic sectors

The year 2020 was defined by the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19 is confirmed to have claimed 17.4 thousand lives in the Netherlands last year, and another 2.7 thousand deaths had covid-19 as probable...

The sickness absence rate among employees in the Netherlands was 4.1 percent in the second quarter of 2011.