Insights
Europe
The Dutch labour market next to the rest of Europe, and what employers here can learn from the comparison.
Europe's shortage lists point to surplus elsewhere
The same occupation is scarce in one European country and in surplus in another. For Dutch employers that asymmetry is usable, with limits.
The Dutch workforce is thin on technical degrees
The technical shortage is not only about how many students graduate each year. The whole educated base is thin, and part of it works…
Labour is the constraint that rises again
Business surveys show the shortage returning before vacancy figures do. Industry and construction feel it first.
The whole rich world is short of staff
Employers who expect relief from abroad count on a surplus that hardly exists. The OECD shows the rich world tight everywhere at once.
Among the tightest because others cooled faster
The Dutch market cooled too. It ranks among the tightest in the EU because Germany, Austria and Czechia cooled much harder.