Labour and social security
Filter by year:- Labour shortage past its peak
- Job growth slows in third quarter of 2008
- Job growth slows down
- Unemployment unchanged
- Fewer unemployment benefits than after last economic boom
- Fewer hours worked in temp jobs
- Number of social security benefits still declining
- Male labour participation rate lower in major cities than in the rest of the country
- Doctorate holders successful on the labour market
- Unemployment hardly changed
- Working single mothers often hold full-time jobs
- More than one million people hold executive positions
- Care-providing duties no longer prevent women from working
- Fewer benefits under the National Survivor's Benefits Act
- Quarter of a million children depend on income support
- Number of job vacancies still high
- Limburg accounts for largest number of unemployment benefits
- Working voluntary carers take more time off
- Dutch unemployment lowest in EU
- Relatively many income support claimants with children in re-integration programmes
- Fewer long-term income support claimants in problem districts
- Unemployment continues to fall
- Nearly 95 thousand east European workers in the Netherlands
- Workers in education oldest on average
- One in eleven employees work flexible hours
- Job growth 2 percent in second quarter of 2008
- Unemployment dips below 300 thousand
- Increasing labour market participation by young people
- Small increase in number of hours worked in temp jobs
- Number of social security benefits 20 thousand down in less than 1 year
- Part-time work force grows faster than full-time work force
- 4 percent of the labour force unemployed
- Number of job vacancies still high
- Social benefits reduced by over 300 thousand
- Unemployment hardly changed
- Unemployment rate down in nearly all provinces
- Collectively negotiated wage increases substantially larger
- Jobs up 2.2 percent in first quarter
- Large families less likely to use formal child care
- Unemployment not falling as fast as before
- Just over 10 percent of parents want parental leave, but do not claim it
- Small increase in number of hours worked in temp jobs
- Manufacturers expect record investments
- Decrease in welfare benefits tapering off
- Unemployment further down
- Groningen has largest proportion of young social security claimants
- Number of vacancies slightly down
- More people working on permanent contracts
- Childcare no longer stands in the way of mothers who want to work
- Long-term unemployment down
- Labour participation of mothers continues to rise
- Large proportion of labour migrants leave the Netherlands within four years
- Work and income following mass redundancy
- Slight fall in unemployment
- Fewer young people unemployed
- Sharp increase in young disabled
- Collectively agreed wages rise more in first quarter of 2008 than in whole of 2007
- Shorter period on income support increases chance of coming off it
- Job growth still high, but slowing down
- No further fall in unemployment
- Sharper fall in unemployment among non-westerners
- Work-disabled hardly benefit from thriving economy
- More older people working in the Netherlands and in the EU
- Mothers continue to work part-time when their children grow older
- Older employees hardly prepared to change their jobs
- Decelerating growth in hours worked in temp jobs
- Number of long-term income support benefits down
- Second-generation people with foreign background can claim higher pensions than first generation
- Fewer unemployed
- Job vacancies remain at record level
- Unemployment down by nearly 70 thousand in 2007
- Collectively negotiated wages increase 2 percent in 2007
- More than 225 thousand people participate in municipal reintegration programmes