Milestone: for the first time since 2012, less than half a million unemployed – RTL News

The unemployment rate in the Netherlands in november it fell further, so that now for the first time since the beginning of 2012, less than a half a million unemployed.

The Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) noted last month 499.000 unemployed, against 502.000 in October. This kept the unemployment rate stable at 5.6 percent of the labour force. The number of employed persons increased over the past months, but also in a less strong pace.

the 12.8 million Dutch people between 15 and 75 had 66 percent work in november. More than 3.8 million of them are not looking or not able to work right away. In this last group are women with 2.2 million in the majority.

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In the period from september to november dropped the number of unemployed on average 7000 per month. This was the decrease in the autumn, less strong than in the summer. That’s according to the CBS because there are more people back to work, that there are people from the labour market.

Especially the increase in the number of working people over 45 years old levels off, allowing the strong reduction of the number of unemployed older people of the previous months not doorzette, says the CBS. UWV counted at the end of november 410.000 current UNEMPLOYMENT insurance benefits. That was 10,000 fewer than in October.

Asscher is ‘very happy’

Lodewijk Asscher (Social Affairs), minister responsible for the fiercely criticized the Law Work and Security, speaks of a milestone and is ‘very happy’ for the people that work again. “This offers hope for all those people who now sit at home and so want to get started”, says Asscher.

The unemployment rate will, of course, never all the way to 0 out. There will always be people who are equally as unemployed are registered, because they are between two jobs. In addition, there is the structural unemployment which is caused by the fact that some occupations die out and new professions added. This structural mismatch applies, for example, for the 55-year-old bank employee who is out of work, while at an insurance company, a building away looking for a marketer.

Check out the explanation of economieverslaggever Bart Reijnen in Z Today:

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