Statistics Netherlands announces, there will be slightly more jobs in the fourth quarter of 2005 than in the third quarter. After corrections for seasonal effects the number of employee jobs rose by 9 thousand. This continues the slight recovery in employment in the course of 2005. For the first time in two and a half years, there are now more jobs than twelve months previously.
The wage costs per labour-year were 2.3 percent higher in the fourth quarter than in the third quarter, according to figures from Statistics Netherlands.
Jobs continue to rise: There were 9 thousand more jobs in the Netherlands in the fourth quarter of 2005 than in the previous quarter. This is the third quarter in a row that the number of jobs rose slightly. In the preceding two years it fell each quarter compared with the previous quarter.
In the course of 2003 the number of jobs decreased by 40 thousand per quarter. Subsequently the fall slowed to 11 thousand in the first quarter of 2005. As seasonal effects may have a large influence on the course of employment, for a more reliable picture of shortterm developments the seasonally adjusted quarterly figures are used.
More work in business services and care sectors: The increase in jobs in the fourth quarter was based mainly on more employment in business services and the care sector. In other sectors the number of jobs decreased or remained stable. The increase in employment in business services is largely the result of more temp jobs, but in computer services, advertising agencies and economic services, too, more jobs became available.
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