Labour and social security
Filter by year:- Jobs growth up to 110 thousand
- Unemployment rate marginally down
- Many more older people retired in 2004
- Sickness absence rate stable in 2005
- Few older people without work want a job
- Biggest fall in income support for years
- Unemployment virtually unchanged
- Record number of unfilled job vacancies
- Most employees do not want to work longer hours
- Most short-term unemployed are young
- High labour participation rate, but many part-time workers in the Netherlands
- Unemployment up after decreasing for a year
- Work incapacity among women no longer growing
- Rise in collectively negotiated wages stable in third quarter
- Job growth continues in the second quarter
- More temporary workers from Poland
- Unemployment down to 400 thousand
- Job growth highest in Flevoland and Gelderland
- People with disablement less active on the job market
- Flex workers in higher demand
- Continuous rise in number of jobs
- Employers pay much more in pension premiums
- Number of welfare benefits continues to fall
- Childcare often provided by family and friends
- Disablement expenditure decreasing fast
- Full-time hours down sharply in last 50 years
- Fewer people unemployed
- Number of job vacancies increased
- More vacancies
- Unemployment further down
- Number of strikes more than doubled in 2005
- Larger rise in collectively negotiated wages in second quarter
- Substantial job increase in first quarter 2006
- More second generation mothers go back to work
- Working until 65 rather unpopular
- Economic recovery leads to fewer unemployment benefits
- Unemployment below 6 percent
- Again fewer welfare benefits
- Civil servants with foreign background earn less because of lower education
- Job vacancies stable at high level
- Unemployment continues to fall
- Working mothers do not suffer more burn-out
- Fewer qualified young people unemployed
- One quarter of employed labour force over 50
- Unemployment down again
- Collectively negotiated wage increase substantially higher at the start of 2006
- Care for family keeps fewer women at home
- More workers via temp agencies
- More jobs in fourth quarter 2005
- Income support fraud cases down further in 2005
- Unemployment falls further
- Regional variation in female labour supply
- Labour disablement benefits down by 60 thousand
- Number of job vacancies still high
- Unemployment still high in the north
- Unemployment down again in January 2006
- Pension entitlement often only partial
- Unemployment of non-western foreigners hardly rose in 2005
- More women active on the labour market
- More jobs for temps
- Unemployment further reduced
- Fewer people on income support find work