In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

Unemployment rates in both the UK and the Netherlands have declined substantially since the early 1980s. This has been … a decline in equilibrium unemployment, the result of combinations of supply-oriented policies. The combinations are …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over … imply that macroeconomic fluctuations can have substantial effects beyond those indicated by net employment changes at the …

Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data cover the period 1993-2002. We find that … employment is a one-way street …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over … imply that macroeconomic fluctuations can have substantial effects beyond those indicated by net employment changes at the …

This paper discusses developments in the Netherlands concerning unemployment insurance, unemployment assistance and …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drives the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market …