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Economy

CPB: Halving Unemployment Benefit Duration Has Little Effect on Employment

FD23 September · 06:4522 hours ago

The Dutch government plans to reduce the maximum duration of unemployment benefits to one year to incentivize faster job acceptance. According to the CPB, this policy change is expected to result in only 8,000 additional jobs.

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