The Netherlands

’s-Hertogenbosch is the capital city of the Province of Noord-Brabant. The youthunemploymentrate in the Netherlands is low, compared with the rest of Europe. In this province a lot of activities are undertaken to keep the youthunemploymentrate as low as possible. From the beginning of 2011 less youngsters were unemployed. This process of decreasing unemployment went on until september 2011. In the province of Noord-Brabant 7.530 youngsters were unemployed in february 2011, in september 2011 there were about 5.843 youngsters unemployed. In november 2011 more youngsters got unemployed, in total 6.615 youngsters. It seems that a new crisis is coming up, this is a European wide development.

Source: Ministry of Education (www.minocw.nl)