Fewer people don’t want to work
The number of people in the Dutch working population who do not want a job fell from 12.6% in 2000 to 8.9% or 970,000 people in 2005, the national statistics office CBS says. In total, over four million of the 10-million strong working population did not have a job, the CBS says.
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