The lower end of the labour market in 2025

Original title: De onderkant van de arbeidsmarkt in 2025 There are more than two million low-skilled people in work or looking for work in the Netherlands. A sizeable proportion of them find it difficult to make headway on the labour market. They are one and a half times as likely to be unemployed as the average. Concerns are regularly raised that the position of low-skilled workers will deteriorate further in the near future. In this report, the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research¦SCP explore how the position of low-skilled people has changed in recent years and whether their disadvantage relative to those with intermediate and higher skills is growing. Scenarios are also presented for the year 2025. The study was carried out at the request of the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment