Employment increased in the second quarter – NU.nl

This reports the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Friday. The increase in the number of jobs came at the expense of workers. There were 45,000 jobs for workers.

The number of jobs of self-employed rose just slightly. This number decreased by seven. There are now more than two million jobs for the self-employed. This equates to one in five jobs.

In the second quarter, there were an average of 9976 jobs. Nine quarters in a row, there is job growth. Since the first quarter of 2014 it added a total of almost 230,000 jobs.

In the second quarter also increased the number of vacancies and the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent.

Video: CBS chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen introduced employment

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the growth mainly sat by in the staffing industry where last quarter bijkwamen thirty thousand jobs. Also in the trade and catering industry increased employment.

In the care disappeared in the same period six thousand jobs. In the past four years have lost a total of more than eighty thousand healthcare jobs.

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At the same time, the number of vacancies by five thousand to 155,000. There’s been twelve consecutive quarters showed an increase. Yet there are still 100,000 fewer jobs than at the peak in 2008.

The largest increase in the number of vacancies was measured in the trade industry (thousand). “Despite a number of bankruptcies in the market, the number of jobs and vacancies still remain in this industry runs on,” said the statistics office. Nearly a fifth of all jobs there is in the market.

There are more vacancies arise substantially in the second quarter (223,000) than there were fulfilled (218,000). “That the number of vacancies are growing faster than the number of vacancies filled, indicates that vacancies open longer before they are fulfilled.”

Unemployment

Furthermore, the number of unemployed fell in the second quarter sixteen. The unemployment rate fell from 6.5 percent of the labor force to 6.3 percent. In all age groups showed a decline.

“The labor market functions better. It goes in the right direction,” said chief economist Peter Hein van Mulligen. There are now an average of 3.6 unemployed per vacancy. That’s a lot less than the end of 2013, when there were more than seven times as many unemployed as job

By:. NU.nl