Interactive map reveals inequality of opportunity in the Netherlands
3 years, 7 months ago

Interactive map reveals inequality of opportunity in the Netherlands

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Researchers at Erasmus University in Rotterdam are uncovering what they describe as ‘striking’ levels of inequality in the Netherlands, after pooling massive amounts of data on millions of Dutch residents. Growing up in a high-income family rather than a low income family will give children three times the chance of achieving an college qualification and five times the chance of earning a university degree. Low income children from Rotterdam, for example, have an average of 26.1% chance of obtaining a higher professional education or university degree. Children of low-income families in the big cities, the northern regions of Groningen and Friesland and the old mining region in the south of Limburg have on average lower income and education levels when they reach their 30s compared to people who grew up in socioeconomically comparable families elsewhere. In Amsterdam, children of high income Dutch families will typically go on to earn around €5,000 more than high income people of Moroccan origin.

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The Dutch Poverty Puzzle: A Deep Dive into the Numbers and the People
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The Dutch Poverty Puzzle: A Deep Dive into the Numbers and the People

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The Netherlands is one of the most prosperous countries in the world, but some 3.1% of the population, or 540,000 people, are still classified as poor. The new definition of poverty in the Netherlands takes into account savings and other immediately usable assets, which has led to a significant decrease in the number of people classified as poor. However, many …

The Dutch Poverty Puzzle: A Deep Dive into the Numbers and the People
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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Dutch Poverty Puzzle: A Deep Dive into the Numbers and the People

Dutch News  

The Netherlands is one of the most prosperous countries in the world, but some 3.1% of the population, or 540,000 people, are still classified as poor. The new definition of poverty in the Netherlands takes into account savings and other immediately usable assets, which has led to a significant decrease in the number of people classified as poor. However, many …

Seven in 10 Dutch women are now financially independent
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Seven in 10 Dutch women are now financially independent

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Some 70% of women in the Netherlands are now able to support themselves financially, compared with just 20% when the survey was first carried out in 1977, according to new research by national statistics agency CBS. In the 1980s, 90s and 00s there was still a dip in women’s economic independence around the age of 25 but this has now …

Seven in 10 Dutch women are now financially independent
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Seven in 10 Dutch women are now financially independent

Dutch News  

Some 70% of women in the Netherlands are now able to support themselves financially, compared with just 20% when the survey was first carried out in 1977, according to new research by national statistics agency CBS. In the 1980s, 90s and 00s there was still a dip in women’s economic independence around the age of 25 but this has now …

Gender wage gap increases to 7.4% in Netherlands
1 year, 2 months ago

Gender wage gap increases to 7.4% in Netherlands

NL Times  

The gender wage gap in the Netherlands - the salary difference between men and women performing the same job with the same education and experience - has increased from 5 percent in 2021 to 7.4 percent this year. Practically educated men received a 15 percent pay hike - double what women with the same education level received. “But one possible …

Nearly 7 percent of kids in Netherlands living at risk of poverty
2 years ago

Nearly 7 percent of kids in Netherlands living at risk of poverty

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Last year, 891,000 people in the Netherlands lived in households with an income below the low-income threshold. That means that 6.6 percent of children in the Netherlands are growing up at risk of poverty, Statistics Netherlands reported. That percentage is slightly lower than in 2020 when 6.8 percent of children lived at risk of poverty. The long-term poverty risk, when …

Single average Dutch people have nearly no chance of buying a home: Mortgage advisor
2 years, 4 months ago

Single average Dutch people have nearly no chance of buying a home: Mortgage advisor

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For single people with an average income, the chance of finding an affordable owner-occupied home in the Netherlands is virtually nonexistent, mortgage broker De Hypotheker concludes after research. This is mainly because these potential home buyers are able to borrow less than last year due to the increase in mortgage interest rates. "The supply of affordable housing for this group …

Gender wage gap: Women earned 13% less than men last year
2 years, 7 months ago

Gender wage gap: Women earned 13% less than men last year

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While the gender wage gap in the Netherlands has been shrinking for years and decreased further last year, it is still not closed. The average hourly wage for women was 13 percent lower than for men last year, Statistics Netherlands reported on Friday. Last year, women earned an average of 22.84 euros per hour. Women earned an average of 36 …

Interactive map reveals inequality of opportunity in the Netherlands
3 years, 7 months ago

Interactive map reveals inequality of opportunity in the Netherlands

Dutch News  

Researchers at Erasmus University in Rotterdam are uncovering what they describe as ‘striking’ levels of inequality in the Netherlands, after pooling massive amounts of data on millions of Dutch residents. Growing up in a high-income family rather than a low income family will give children three times the chance of achieving an college qualification and five times the chance of …

NL residents underestimate how many kids live in poverty
3 years, 9 months ago

NL residents underestimate how many kids live in poverty

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Most Netherlands residents underestimate how many children in the country live in poverty, according to a study by the foundation for ideological advertising SIRE. Almost half of Dutch think that the parents of children living in poverty don't work, and about a quarter think the lack of money is the parents' own fault and responsibility. "But in reality, 37 percent …

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