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The number of jobs in the Netherlands is declining, but not as strong as first thought. It now shows in new, more complete employment data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
In the second quarter of 2014, there are thousand jobs less than in the first three months of this year. CBS reported earlier that there was a contraction of eight thousand jobs. Compared to the same period last year, there are seventy thousand fewer jobs, in the estimation of
The CBS also announced today that in the last quarter, the Dutch economy has grown faster than expected. Slightly stronger The economy grew by 0.7 percent instead of six percent, reported CBS.
The higher growth is due to household consumption and business investment, which in the second, according to the statistics office turned out to higher authority. The overall picture of the economy is not, however, changed, say the statisticians. The growth is still for the most part due to the export
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