Wages and Employment in the Netherlands, 2017–2023

Iris Klinker () and Bas Weel ()
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Iris Klinker: SEO Amsterdam Economics
Bas Weel: University of Amsterdam

De Economist, 2024, vol. 172, issue 3, No 3, 233-256

Abstract: Abstract This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our estimates. The research period has been characterised by high labour demand, negative supply shocks, high levels of inflation and economic lockdowns, all of which have contributed to substantial labour-market dynamics. Our findings suggest that employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017–2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has slightly fallen. Wages have been rising for workers at the bottom of the wage distribution. From the median of the wage distribution onwards real gross hourly wages have been fallen. The most likely explanation for rising wages at the bottom is the stepwise increase in minimum wages enforced by new labour-market legislation.

Keywords: Employment; Inflation; Wages; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E31 J21 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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