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Linking Trade and Transport Statistics: the Dutch Case
Full text linkInternational trade flows are important for a trading nation such as the Netherlands. They are an important source of income, value added, and welfare. Trade flows are strongly related to transport flows of goods to and from a country. However, not all international transport flows through a country are registered as merchandize trade flows. For example, transit flows of goods are not recorded in international merchandize trade statistics. Such flows can just as well serve as a basis for value added, though. For example, goods transferred in Rotterdam harbour and transported and distributed by Dutch logistics firms create a basis for value added in services trade. Moreover, transport flows of goods entail costs as well, such as the costs of traffic congestion and environmental pollution. Therefore, it is of interest to have good information on the value and quantities of goods transported through countries, and the modes of transport used for various types of flows. For this purpose, we need integrated statistics on trade flows and transport flows in goods. To be able to match trade and transit flows with transport statistics, complete and plausible information on mode of transport and gross weight is needed. This paper describes the scope and coverage of trade statistics in comparison to transport statistics for the Netherlands. We use transport statistics to allocate the plausible mode of transport to trade and transit flows. Creating an integrated view on trade and transport flows in goods, the paper intends to contribute to an improved understanding of the impact of merchandize trade and transit flows on the economy, both in terms of domestic value added and in terms of potential social costs related to congestion and the emission of pollutants.
Faillissementen: oorzaken en schulden 2015
Full text linkThis report contains the results of a study on debts and causes of bankruptcies that were finalized in 2015. The study was conducted by Statistics Netherlands and commissioned by the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice. The methodology used in the study is similar to that used in earlier CBS-studies on debts and causes of finalized bankruptcies. An important difference with the previous studies conducted by Statistics Netherlands is that not every bankruptcy was investigated. Instead, a stratified random sample was used, except for ‘businesses and other organisations’ employing more than hundred persons. In the latter case all bankruptcies were investigated. The results of this research remain fully comparable with the results obtained in previously conducted studies by Statistics Netherlands. Index Het onderzoek is een vervolg op en actualisering van het CBS-onderzoek 'Faillissementen; oorzaken en schulden’ door Boer en Lalta uit 2011, zodat de resultaten kunnen worden vergeleken met de cijfers van het CBS over de jaren 2004, 2006, 2008 en 2010. In dit rapport zijn de resultaten beschreven van een onderzoek naar de oorzaken en schulden van in 2015beëindigde faillissementen. De opzet van het onderzoek is zoveel mogelijk vergelijkbaar gehouden met die van eerdere CBS-studies naar oorzaken en schulden van beëindigdefaillissementen. Een belangrijk verschil met de voorgaande CBS-onderzoeken is dat voor zowel ‘bedrijven en instellingen’ als voor natuurlijke personen een gestratificeerde aselecte steekproef is toegepast, met uitzondering van ‘bedrijven en instellingen’ met meer dan 100 werkzame personen; deze zijn alle onderzocht. De resultaten van dit onderzoek blijven volledig vergelijkbaar met die van eerdere CBS-studies. INHOUD: 1. Inleiding 2. Achtergronden onderzoek schulden en oorzaken faillissementen 3. Aantal beëindigde faillissementen 4. Schulden voortkomend uit beëindigde faillissementen 5. Strafbare en of onrechtmatige benadeling 6. Bijlage
Uses of National Accounts; History, International Standardization and Applications in the Netherlands
Full text linkThe national accounts is commonly known by its key-aggregates (e.g. GDP and saving) and their role in public debate and decision-making. However, the national accounts plays many different roles for many different uses. This paper provides an overview of the development of these roles and uses since the seventeenth century. Three periods are distinguished: the early estimates (1660-1930), revolutionary decades (1930-1950) and the era of the international guidelines (1950-present). The paper discusses these roles and uses also much more in detail for one country: the Netherlands, a country which played an important role in modern national accounting and where expert data users, like the CPB, SCP and the Dutch central bank, have developed several interesting applications of the national accounts.Uses of the national accounts, history of national accounting, history of taxation, economic growth, Dutch national accounts, relevance and reliability of the national accounts, Petty, King, Vauban, Quesnay, Keynes, Clark, Kuznets, Leontief, Tinbergen, Hicks, van Cleeff, Stone, Meade, guidelines on national accounting, European unification, macro-economic modeling and forecasting, CPB, SCP, Dutch central bank, fiscal policy, productivity analysis, performance management, national accounts and welfare, measurement in economics
Faillissementen: oorzaken en schulden 2015
No full textThis report contains the results of a study on debts and causes of bankruptcies that were finalized in 2015. The study was conducted by Statistics Netherlands and commissioned by the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice. The methodology used in the study is similar to that used in earlier CBS-studies on debts and causes of finalized bankruptcies. An important difference with the previous studies conducted by Statistics Netherlands is that not every bankruptcy was investigated. Instead, a stratified random sample was used, except for ‘businesses and other organisations’ employing more than hundred persons. In the latter case all bankruptcies were investigated. The results of this research remain fully comparable with the results obtained in previously conducted studies by Statistics Netherlands. Inde
Classification of diagnoses and procedures and application in new hospital statistics
No full textKoppelen van opnamegegevens van ziekenhuizen aan de bevolkingsadministratie biedt nieuwe mogelijkheden voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar de epidemiologie van ziektes. Uit een proefbestand berekende incidenties blijken goed overeen te komen met literatuurwaarden, voor een brede groep aandoeningen. De koppeling maakt het ook mogelijk om op termijn het gebruik van ziekenhuiszorg uit te splitsen naar maatschappelijke doelgroepen. Deze studie is uitgevoerd in samenwerking met het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek. Hoofddoel van de studie was de selectie van diagnoseindelingen, welke gebruikt zullen worden in nieuwe gezondheidsstatistieken. Tevens werd een methode ontwikkeld om gewenste uitkomstmaten voor ziekenhuiszorg te berekenen uit de beschikbare databestanden. Tenslotte zijn proefberekeningen uitgevoerd voor geselecteerde ziektes. De gebruikte data zijn afkomstig uit de 'Landelijke Medische Registratie'. Vrijwel alle Nederlandse ziekenhuizen leveren gegevens aan voor deze registratie. Drie diagnose-indelingen zijn geselecteerd voor rapportage, waarbij zowel op nationale als internationale bruikbaarheid is gelet. Het gaat om de volgende indelingen: (1) De diagnose- en verrichtingen indeling ontwikkeld in het Hospital Data Project. Deze is ontwikkeld door een brede projectgroep, met deelnemers uit 16 Europese landen, en met participatie van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie. (2) De lijst van belangrijke doodsoorzaken zoals gebruikt in de Nederlandse doodsoorzakenstatistiek. (3) De diagnose-indeling zoals gebruikt in het Nationaal Kompas Volksgezondheid van het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu.This report presents three lists of diagnoses and procedures which will be used by Statistics Netherlands in the production of new health statistics. The following lists were used: (1) Diagnosis and procedure lists developed in the 'Hospital Data Project'. Sixteen European countries were involved, with participation of the World Health Organisation. (2) The list of main causes of death used by Statistics Netherlands. (3) The list used by the Dutch National Public Health Compass developed by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).The lists will be used for producing statistics on a new dataset with Dutch health data ('GezondheidsStatistisch Bestand'), developed by Statistics Netherlands. Part of this set are hospital discharge data ('Landelijke Medische Registratie', Prismant) linked with data from the population register. The linkage enables analysis on the patient level, with the possibility of adding background characteristics of the patient to discharge data. This report presents trial computations on this linked dataset. For some diseases the computed incidence has been compared with data from independent sources. It was concluded that the linked dataset is well suited for the production of statistics on use of hospital care and for clinical epidemiological measures.VW
Modeling migration dynamics of immigrants: the case of the Netherlands
Full text linkIn this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we analyze both the departure and the return from abroad for recent non-Dutch immigrants to The Netherlands. Results disclose differences among migrants by migration motive and by country of origin and lend support to our analytical framework. Combining both models, for departure and returning, provides the probability that a specific migrant ends-up in The Netherlands. It also yields a framework for predicting the migration dynamics over the life-cycle. We can conclude that for a complete view of the migration dynamics it is important to allow for both permanent (stayers) migrants and temporary (movers) migrants and that return from abroad should not be neglected.migration dynamics;mover-stayer model;return migration
The Chinese economy, seen from Japan and the Netherlands
Full text linkThis paper assesses the consequences of the rapid Chinese economic development for Japan and the Netherlands. China has become the most important supplier of import goods for Japan and the fourth most important one for the Netherlands. With two-thirds of Dutch imports from China being re-exported, the emergence of China has enhanced the role of the Netherlands as European distribution centre. As for exports, China is now a major market for Japan, but not for the Netherlands. This is in line with gravity models of foreign trade. The same holds for differences in foreign direct investment (FDI), with Japan the biggest investor in China and the Netherlands a minor one. The emergence of China has increased purchasing power of Japanese and Dutch households, while its effects on labour markets and income distribution are relatively modest. In spite of differences between Japan and the Netherlands, the consequences for economic policy of the increasing role of China are very similar.
Defendants who fail to appear in court and defendants who do appear in court in commercial law cases (full text only available in Dutch)
No full textMany defendants fail to appear at hearings in commercial law cases handled by the Dutch sub-district courts. Previous research on the travel distance between the defendant’s home address and the sub-district court location has shown that travel distance does not play a role in whether or not the defendant chooses to appear in court. In order to gain more insight into who these absentees are, the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) has asked Statistics Netherlands (CBS) to conduct statistical research on the socio-economic characteristics of these commercial case defendants, focusing specifically on any differences between defendants who do appear and those who do not. The research question was formulated as follows: who are the defendants who fail to appear in court, and what are their socio-economic characteristics compared to defendants who do appear in court? Aside from answering this question, we compared the characteristics of both absentees and defendants appearing in court with the characteristics of the Dutch population.Veel gedaagden laten verstek gaan bij door de kantonrechter behandelde handelszaken. Uit eerder onderzoek naar de reisafstand tussen het woonadres van de gedaagde en de kantonlocatie blijkt dat de reisafstand geen rol speelt in het wel of niet verweer voeren. Om meer inzichten te krijgen in wie de verstekgangers zijn, heeft het WODC het CBS gevraagd om een statistisch onderzoek uit te voeren naar de sociaal-economische kenmerken van gedaagden bij door de kantonrechter behandelde handelszaken, met een focus op eventuele verschillen tussen gedaagden die verstek laten gaan en gedaagden die wel verweer voeren. De onderzoeksvraag luidt als volgt: wie zijn de verstekgangers en wat zijn hun sociaal-economische kenmerken in vergelijking met verschenen gedaagden? Naast het beantwoorden van deze vraag worden de kenmerken van zowel verstekgangers als verweervoerders ook vergeleken met de kenmerken van de Nederlandse bevolking. INHOUD: 1. Inleiding 2. Afbakening populatie 3. Kenmerken gedaagden 4. Conclusies en aanbevelingen voor vervolgonderzoe
WP 100 - Low wages in the retail industry in the Netherlands
Full text linkThis Working Paper is basically a “source book”, accounting the results of over five years of research into the retail industry and the sources used for that research. It originates from the Future of Work in Europe research project of the New York-based Russell Sage Foundation (RSF), in which the AIAS and STZ advies & onderzoek (consultancy & research) carried out the Dutch part, resulting in the monograph Low-Wage Work in the Netherlands (RSF, 2008). It also incorporates sources for the retail part of the project that subsequently compared low-wage developments in Europe and the US, resulting in the volume Low-Wage Work in the Wealthy World (RSF, 2010). The Working Paper shows the development of Dutch retailing as an industry in which in the 2000s nearly half of all workers earn less than the low-wage threshold, that is, less than two-thirds of the national median gross hourly wage. In the 1980s and early 1990s retailing already moved towards low pay in the Netherlands. From the mid-1990s on, major factors worked toward the persistence of low pay, in particular in the supermarkets, where three in five workers earned less than the threshold: the slowdown or even decline of disposable income growth and the low consumer-spending share; price wars and the spread of discounting; economies of scale and deregulation of zoning regulations and opening hours, and the development of supply-chain management systems. The longer opening hours allowed by the 1996 Opening Hours (Shops) Act initiated changes in the logistical chain. The food chains replaced adult shift workers with young shelf-stackers; the long “tail” of low youth rates, also applied for prospective checkout operators, proved to constitute an exit option for employers maintaining a low-wage orientation. The supermarket price war of 2003-2006 strengthened employers’ orientation on deploying youngsters, in particular secondary and tertiary education students, (initially, in 2003-04) at the expense of adult women and, structurally, at the expense of those youngsters who want to earn a living wage after leaving school. The official facility to combine work and study distorts parts of the youth retail labour market, effectively crowding out the latter category. In spite of the domination of “low roads” in product market and human resources strategies of food chains, functional flexibility proved to be widespread at shop-floor level -- almost inevitable as tight financial and personnel benchmarks do not allow idle hours. Working time and scheduling issues stood out prominently in workplace relations in the supermarkets. Recurrent issues of complaint concerned employer decisions concerning working times and days-off, as well as low staffing levels and employers not paying according to hours worked. Discontent on these matters rose during the price war. In consumer electronics retail, the other retail sub-sector studied, nearly one in five workers earned less than the low-wage threshold. Yet, workers had to rely to a considerably part on bonuses and compensations paid for working overtime or unusual hours to reach an acceptable pay level. In consumer electronics the working time issue was much less prominent, partly because of the lower share of part-timers, partly because of higher wages, partly because of the compensation system. Without suggesting a too rosy picture, based on an assessment of shop-floor relations we may conclude that consumer electronics retailing contrasted indeed to a large extent with the supermarket branch, not least because this business is sales-based and knowledgeable salespersons have to be regarded as valuable assets.
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