Summary - Demand for labour 2015
Original title: Vraag naar arbeid 2015
Dutch labour market policies aimed at raising the labour participation rate. Employers have an important role to play here. Investments in the workforce are important in prolonging employability. What HR policy do businesses pursue, and are developments moving in the direction that the government would like?
Author(s): Patricia van Echtelt Roelof Schellingerhout Marian de Voogd-Hamelink
ISBN/ISSN/other: 978 90 377 0754 0
This report discusses a number of current policy themes, such as the flexiblilisation of labour, ‘from work to work’ programmes, training and combining work with care tasks. It also describes the amount of attention that employers devote to special groups such as older people and people with health impairments.
The report is based on data drawn from a long-running survey of almost 3,000 employers, which is repeated every two years. The Netherlands Institute for Social Research¦SCP has administered the results of the survey since 2010.
Patricia van Echtelt works in the Labour and Public Services research sector at SCP, where she carries out research on employment and social security. Roelof Schellingerhout is employed in the Care, Labour and Social Policy department of the ITS Institute for Applied Social Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen, conducting research in the fields of care, welfare and labour.
Marian de Voogd is a data management officer in the Labour and Public Services research sector at SCP. She prepared the Labour Demand Panel data for use in this report.