The Number of Freelancers Is Stagnating

By: Together Abroad 21-11-2016 11:52 AM
Categories: * Daily employment news,

The number of self-employed has not increased further for the first time in years. More and more people stop freelancing: they either leave the job market or they became employees.

Nearly 400,000 were self-employed freelancers with no staff, since the third quarter of 2003, which wasan increase of 63%. But last year the rise stagnated, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This year, about 50,000 self-employed stopped per quarter.

Getting Started as an Employee

Many freelancers left the labour market. And nearly half work as an employee, usually with a flexible employment relationship. In the third quarter of this year, there were still about 1 million people who get their main income from work as a freelancer. That is less than a year ago.

In the number of freelancers in recent years, the higher increase was the one of highly educated people. Which now form more than 40% of allfreelancers. The secondary-educated freelancers are no longer the largest group. People who have an extra job next to theirregular job are not counted by CBS in the figures.


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