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A person who has a contract with an economic unit to carry out work in return for financial remuneration.

Dossier Sustainable development

Income transfers by government to households on the basis of social insurance financed by specific premiums.

Financial institutions that request or acquire funds or other goods for collective investment in order to have the unit-holders share in the proceeds of the investments.

Dossier Historical series

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Payment for which no quid pro quo by the beneficiary is expected. It burdens the wealth of the payer, or is meant to finance fixed capital formation or other long-term expenditures of the receiver.

The aim of the law is to create employment for people who can work but cannot succeed in finding regular employment due to physical or mental disabilities.

The distribution of the income generated over the various domestic sectors and of the rest of the world. Can be divided into primary income distribution and secondary income distribution (income...

Premiums employers and employees have to pay on the basis of several social insurance laws such as the AOW (pensions) , ZFW (health insurance) and WW (unemployment)

The contributions paid by employers to social security. These include imputed and actual social premiums and actual pension premiums.

The account records changes in acquisitions and disposals of financial assets. The balance is in principle equal to the surplus or deficit ( like the budget deficit or surplus used in the EMU).

The institutional sector of the economy consists of all households residing in the Netherlands for more than one year. Also included are the companies owned by members of the household, that are not...

Person or company belonging to the Dutch economy. These include all persons living in the Netherlands for longer than one year and companies whose seat is in the Netherlands, including branch offices...

An umbrella concept for the filled and unfilled demand for work by employees and self-employed people. Several related concepts are jobs, unfilled vacancies, employed people, employed labour force...

Company that has financial intermediation as its main activity and whose shares or certificates are included officially on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (Euronext).

Stage of the economic cycle characterised by decreasing growth in economic activities. This is measured as a decreasing growth of the volume of the gross domestic product or a growth that is below...