Four in 10 Dutch teens have a job, supermarket work tops the list

Dutch teenagers are most likely to have a job as a supermarket shelf stacker, behind the till or delivering newspapers, the national statistics office CBS said on Tuesday.

In total, four in 10 Dutch teenagers have a job, with eight in 10 working not more than 12 hours a week.

Youngsters at university or hbo college are less likely to work than students in vocational training or at secondary school, the CBS said.

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