Dutch self-employed without employees continues to grow

Posted on Jun 26, 2012 in Business | 5 comments

Dutch self-employed without employees continues to grow

Half of the self-employed workers in the Netherlands are service providers without employees according to Statistics Netherlands.

In the first quarter van 2012 there were over 570 thousand self-employed service providers in the Netherlands without personnel. Almost half was highly educated, and the most common profession was business consultant.

Nearly seven out of ten self-employed operate without personnel

In the first quarter of 2012 there were nearly 1.1 million self-employed in the Netherlands. 68 percent of them did not employ personnel, about 28 percent did and over 3 percent was working in the family business. The number of self-employed without personnel has risen sharply in recent years, in part because more employees started their own business.

Most self-employed without personnel provide services
Nearly all self-employed without personnel who had previously worked as employees provide services, e.g. as consultants or in construction. There is also a group of self-employed without personnel who provide products, e.g. retailers or farmers. In the first quarter of 2012 over half of all were self-employed service providers without personnel.

Self-employed service providers without personnel are most commonly business consultants

Business or management consultant is the most common profession among the self-employed service providers without personnel. There are also many hairdressers and beauticians and professionals in construction, such as carpenters, painters and constructors. Medical professions are also high on the list, such as medical doctors and physiotherapists.

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  • Dane

    Over 9.5 thousand Dutch bankruptcy filings in 2011 might be the reason that more Dutch self-employed are without employees and continues to grow.

  • Guest

    Are you allowed to be self-employed after being declared bankrupt over here?

  • Jason

    The circumstance that someone has been bankrupt or has been involved in moratorium or debt restructuring, remains registered for some time with the Bureau for Credit Registration (BCR) in Tiel and with the Central Insolvency Register (CIR) at the Board for Jurisprudence in The Hague (www.rechtspraak.nl/registers). This is after all a relevant risk factor for credit providers.

    There are no legal obstacles to restarting an enterprise. Following successful restructuring proceedings there are again prospects for a good financial future for private individuals since the debt burden has been discharged.

    An entrepreneur who has significantly contributed to the bankruptcy through apparently improper administration of the enterprise may be held liable by the administrator on the grounds of the Civil Code. The Penal Law Code contains provisions concerning threatened bank breaking. No specific sanctions exist for employers/non-corporate bodies if they do not adhere to their debt restructuring obligations.

    Read more
    http://ec.europa.eu/civiljustice/bankruptcy/bankruptcy_net_en.htm

  • Guest-Guest-Guest

    ” In the first quarter van 2012 there were over 570 thousand self-employed service providers in the Netherlands without personnel.”

    “In the first quarter of 2012 there were nearly 1.1 million self-employed in the Netherlands.”

    Copied from the article….soooo…do we have 570 thousand self employed or 1,1 milion in the first quarter of 2012?????

  • Seawebs

    The story keeps saying the same thing without elaborating