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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
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