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 …

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor … force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the …

compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …