Labour and social security
Filter by year:- More female recipients of disability benefits
- Job numbers plummet
- Lower educated people more pessimistic about finding jobs
- Unemployment increasing further
- Youth unemployment further up
- Low labour participation rate among lower educated women
- Cross-border commuting
- Less job security for flex-workers
- Income support benefits continue to rise
- Decline in number of temp hours levels off
- Unemployment exceeds 400 thousand
- More than one in three employees prepared to work until the age of 65
- More non-western immigrants unemployed due to recession
- Number of vacancies stabilising
- Considerable increase WW benefits continues in third quarter of 2009
- Fewer unemployed people finding a new job quickly
- Crisis doubles redundancies in the Netherlands
- Unemployment hits sector business services
- Fewer people move to new jobs
- Unemployment continues to rise
- Women account for growing labour participation among older people
- Dutch youngsters often work evenings and weekends
- Increase collectively agreed wages slows down further
- Employed labour force ages further
- Inflow of Eastern European workers petering out
- Loss of jobs substantial
- Trade union membership rates continue to decline
- Unemployment rate jumps to 5 percent
- Nearly 19 thousand part-time unemployment benefits
- Growing number of AOW recipients settle abroad
- Re-integration activities increasingly important in sheltered employment
- Declining growth self-employed without personnel
- Fewer and fewer first-time mothers cut back working hours
- Further increase social security benefits
- Fewer hours worked in temp jobs
- Considerable increase youth unemployment
- Unemployment approaches 5 percent
- Substantial drop in vacancies
- Fewer employees take parental leave
- More people changed jobs in 2008
- The Netherlands has highest rate of part-timers in Europe
- Unemployment rate soaring
- Part-timers less satisfied with working hours than full-timers
- Smaller rise in collectively agreed wages in second quarter
- Dutch labour participation rate one of the highest in the EU
- Sickness absence fairly stable in first quarter
- Slight job increase
- Number of unemployment benefits growing faster
- Unemployment rises further
- Increase social security recipients after 4 years of decline
- Slump in temp hours
- One in ten people work at or from home
- Supportive colleagues make a difference
- Higher labour participation rate over-55s
- Unemployment rises quickly
- One in five Dutch households claiming benefit
- Number of vacancies again drops sharply
- Increase in number of Eastern European workers slows down considerably
- Unemployment rate higher among men and young people
- People more concerned about losing their jobs
- Unemployment mounting
- Collectively agreed wage increase 3.7 percent in first quarter of 2009
- Long-term unemployment down in 2008
- Sickness absence rate stable in recent years
- Job growth continues into fourth quarter 2008
- Sharp increase in partial AOW benefits
- Unemployment marginally higher
- More parents receive childcare allowance
- Further increase mothers working in large part-time jobs
- Unemployment down across nearly all provinces in 2008
- No further decline number of social security benefits
- Fewer hours worked in temp jobs
- Marginal increase new disability benefits
- Number of unemployment benefits no longer in decline
- Unemployment rate marginally higher
- Female labour participation rate nearly 60 percent
- Unemployment down slightly among non-western foreigners in 2008
- Four percent of employees per day off sick
- Number of vacancies plummets
- Working hours mothers crucial for hours their children spend in formal child care
- Unemployment rising
- CAO wages 3.3 percent up in 2008
- Higher educated mums make more use of childcare facilities than their lower educated counterparts
- Full-time job plus part-time job most satisfactory combination