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Last year, 59 thousand working days were lost to strikes in the Netherlands. In nearly four in ten strike days, the disputes concerned collectively negotiated (CAO) wages.

A person who has submitted a request to enter the Netherlands as a refugee

Manufacturers’ stocks of finished products were 6.0 percent up in September 2014 from September 2013. Over the past six months, manufacturing stocks have been larger than twelve months previously,...

Preliminary results of ongoing big data research into online purchases by Dutch consumers from foreign webshops.

Student from a cultural minority defined by the Dutch Ministry of Education as someone meeting one of the following criteria: - belongs to a Moluccan group; - at least one parent or guardian...

People who don't have paid work or work less than twelve hours per week.

Dutch employees aged 55 to 64 years say they could continue their present work to an age of 64.7 years on average. This is one and a half years older than the current average age of retirement.

Sustained growth manufacturing output

In the period December through February, the number of people aged 15 to 74 in paid employment grew by an average of 13 thousand per month. The number of employed stood at more than 8.9 million at...

December’s consumer confidence index was marginally up on the previous month and is now, after a minor downturn in November, back at the level of September and October.

In May, 681 businesses and institutions (excluding one-man businesses) in the Netherlands were declared bankrupt, as against 594 in April.

Payment made by resident and non-resident insurance companies to resident and non-resident policy holders in order to compensate for damage resulting from accident, illness, theft, collision etc.

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

Inflation rate June stable at 0 percent

The inflation rate in the Netherlands averaged 1.9 percent in December, i.e. 0.4 percentage points down on November. For the fourth month running, the rate was lower than in the preceding month.

The Dutch inflation rate was 2.8 percent in August. In July, inflation had reached the highest level in nearly half a decade (3.1 percent).

In Q3 2018, Dutch consumers bought around 406 million euros (excl. VAT) worth of products from foreign EU webshops. This is 14 pecent up on the same quarter in 2017.

1,940 Dutch residents – mainly women – are one hundred years or older.