Labour and social security
Filter by year:- Employment marginally down
- Largest occupational group on each island of the Caribbean Netherlands are construction workers
- Number of hours worked in temp jobs increased further
- Statistics Netherlands voted Best Government Organisation of the Year 2015
- Unemployment rate up
- Germany's labour market in better shape compared to its western neighbours
- Fewer men economically independent
- Number of Dutch children in child care facilities declined by 72 thousand between 2012 and 2014
- No further reduction unemployment
- Decline in unemployment sharpest for 25 to 44 year-olds
- Purchasing power up after four years of decline
- Sharpest increase in temp hours in almost five years
- Sustained decline unemployment
- More women employed
- Short-term unemployment further down
- Employed labour force rose by more than 100 thousand over the past 12 months
- Part-timers often financially vulnerable
- European support for helping young unemployed people find work
- More women employed
- fewer young people in the Caribbean Netherlands than in the Netherlands have a side job
- Labour force in Caribbean Netherlands: relatively more people in work
- Residents St Eustatius enjoy highest incomes in Caribbean Netherlands
- further increase in hours worked in temp jobs
- Marginal increase employed, fewer people unemployed
- 1.3 percent of Dutch households have personal capital of 1 million euros or more
- Lack of important new skills or know-how among nearly a quarter of Dutch employees
- Labour market recovery continues more slowly
- Few strike days in 2014
- Intramunicipal emigration possible in Limburg
- 80 thousand workers live in Belgium and Germany
- More people find employment, in particular young people
- 75 thousand young people at a great distance from the labour market
- Sickness absence rate dips to lowest level since 1996
- Unemployment down due to contraction of the labour force
- Full-time working mothers as often employed at managerial level as full-time working fathers
- More social security claimants in 2014, but share young claimants stable
- Employment and unemployment up
- benefits dependence rising most in north Netherlands
- higher child care costs have not reduced labour participation of parents
- women in particular expect parenthood to reduce career chances
- More than half of employees are 65 years or older at retirement
- One in three disabled hold paid jobs
- More two-income couples with one full-time job and one large part-time job
- Marginal increase workers from Bulgaria and Romania
- Living on social benefits often passed on from one generation to the next
- More people unemployed in December