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The share of employees in the Netherlands who say they want to work until they reach the age of 65 years has doubled in the space of four years: from 21 percent in 2005 to 42 percent in 2009

At the request of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW), the Centre for Policy Statistics of Statistics Netherlands (CBS-CVB) has calculated provisional figures on employees without...

Employees retire at a later age. In 2007, the average age of retirement had risen to 62.

To obtain more insight into the sources of income of older people and to be able to identify the ‘various routes to pension’, the Ministry of Economic Affairs requested the Centre for Policy Related...

The number of hours worked in temp jobs dropped by 2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2009 relative to the third quarter.

Last year, 38 percent of employees were doing overtime on a regular basis. This percentage has hardly changed in recent years and also remained stable during the economic crisis.

Nearly 960 thousand people in the Netherlands were self-employed in 2009, of whom 630 thousand did not employ others. In spite f the economic crisis they hardly worked less last year.

The number of jobs of employees in the Netherlands was 147 thousand lower in the fourth quarter of 2009 than one year previously. This is a 1.8 percent decrease.

According to the most recent figures released by Statistics Netherlands, the seasonally adjusted number of unfilled job vacancies was 122 thousand at the end of December 2009, i.e. 6 thousand fewer...

In September 2009, there were 117 thousand workers from East European EU countries in the Netherlands, an increase by 5 thousand relative to one year previously. Although the rapid growth observed in...

In the first quarter of 2009, there were nearly 630 thousand self-employed without personnel (zzp workers). Their number declined by more than 20 thousand relative to the third quarter of 2009.

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

Early this year, 90 thousand employees living in Belgium or Germany were working in the Netherlands. The number of cross-border commuters has increased considerably over the past decade.

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...

Some 85 thousand people in the Netherlands lost their job in the first eight months of 2009.

In June 2009, there were 104 thousand workers from Eastern European EU member states in the Netherlands, about as many as in June 2008. The sharp increase in recent years has almost completely come...

The number of jobs of employees in the Netherlands was 72 thousand (0.9 percent) lower in the second quarter of 2009 than one year previously. A four-year period of continuous job growth has now come...

In 2008, one in five employees working in paid employment for at least twelve hours a week were members of a trade union. In recent years, trade union membership rates have fallen considerably.

The number of jobs of employees in the Netherlands was 93 thousand lower in the second quarter of 2009 than one year previously; this is a drop of 1.2 percent.

Fewer employees took parental leave in 2008 than in previous years, but the average leave period increased.

In 2008, the large majority of workers in the Netherlands, nearly 86 percent, were satisfied with their working hours.

Some 11 thousand more unemployment benefits (WW) were paid out in April 2009 than the month before. This brings the seasonally adjusted figure to 203 thousand.