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Regulation allowing employers to be exempt from having to pay the legal minimum wage or the normal collective labour agreement wage to employees who perform clearly below the required level due to...

Stage of the economic cycle characterised by decreasing growth in economic activities. This is measured as a decreasing growth of the volume of the gross domestic product or a growth that is below...

The financial revenues minus the financial expenditure. The revenues come from interest, investment income, participations, dividends and other financial revenues. The expenditure consist of interest...

Decision by the public prosecutor not to take action because the prosecution is unlikely to lead to a conviction (for instance due to lack of evidence or because the fact or the suspect is not...

A legal form with no legal personality, where one natural person owns the business. The owner is entirely liable for all business and capital matters. There is no distinction between business assets...

Sub sector of the institutional sector general government. The sub sector includes aspects of government that do not belong to central government or social security institutions. Examples are...

Premiums payable by the employer on the basis of several social insurance laws such as the AOW (pensions), ZFW (health insurance) and WW (unemployment) as well as premium transfers.

The yields of investments of pension or life insurance provisions which are seen as income from property received by policyholders from insurance companies, who pay the imputed pension and life...

Law rescinded on 1 July 1998 and replaced by WAZ and Wajong. It was a compulsory insurance for the entire population against the financial consequences of long-term disablement.

The additions to provisions minus released provisions such as run-up and reconstitution funds, maintenance reserves, guarantee provisions, etc.

Private household consisting of a couple without children living at home with other household members or a private household with just other household members (no couple)..

Solid, fossil fuel existing of carbonized rests of vegetal origin. Hard coal, brown coal and peat are primary forms of coal, which means the coal is not transformed in coal products, the secondary...

Shifting year average of the percentage of sick leave in the public sector. It refers to sick leave including leave of more than one year and excluding pregnancy and maternity leave. It indicates...

The up and downturns of the economy within a five to ten year period. Usually there are the following phases.: recovery, boom, recession, and depression.

A job for which there is a permanent contract and for which a fixed number of hours was agreed that is less than the number of hours in a full day’s or working week.

Someone who has passed their exam for medical doctor at the university, and who is entered in the register of the public health inspector, and who is therefore legally qualified to practice medicine,...

Someone who died as a result of a sudden traffic-related accident on the public road involving at least one moving vehicle. People who die after 29 days following the accident are no longer counted...

One of the two tracks in secondary vocational training introduced by the WEB (Adult and Vocational Education Act). In this track students spend 60 percent of their time of practical training within a...

Sick leave refers to sick leave including leave of more than one year and excluding pregnancy and maternity leave for public sector employees: central government, provinces, municipalities, water...

At the request of the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Statistics Netherlands’ Centre for Policy Related Statistics has calculated indicative figures for differences in remuneration...

Income transfers by government or non-profit institutions to households on the basis of social security legislation. These are not financed by specific premiums but by general tax revenues.

All activities undertaken for leisure purposes. For instance: a day trip to the beach or an amusement park, walking, sports, visiting a museum, theatre or café/bar, a boat trip, singing in a choir,...

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