Flemish and Dutch Labour Market Partly Overlap

By: Together Abroad 13-03-2017 11:20 AM
Categories: * Daily employment news,
Labour markets at the border of the Netherlands and Belgium partly overlap, especially in the Dutch region of South Limburg and Zeeland Flanders. This emerged from a study by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) and the Flemish Centre for Work.

Belgians work more often in the Netherlands, and the Dutch work in Belgium. Approximately nine thousand people living in the Netherlands worked in the Belgian border region in 2014. And 31,000 Belgium residents worked in the Netherlands that same year.The structure of the labour on both sides of the border is different. It involves differences such as the type of contract and employment.

Youth

On the Dutch side, young people are more active on the labour market than young people on the Belgian side. This is explained by the higher number of Dutch people having a part-time job alongside their studies.

The proportion of self-employed workers around the Belgian and Dutch border is similar. More often workers have more temporary and part-time contracts in the Dutch border region than in the Flemish border region.

The Dutch border region has more jobs in the commercial services sector while at the Flemish side, the public services, industry and construction are overrepresented.

Source: http://www.nu.nl

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