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The Hague – Job seekers have not necessarily had to move from the region to the Randstad in recent years. The number of jobs outside the big cities (and the Eindhoven region) has also increased significantly over the last fifteen years. Amsterdam remains an exception; the capital is a real job machine.
This emerges from a study by the Dutch Environmental Impact Assessment Agency (PBL) on the distribution of jobs in the country and their development in recent years (between 1996 and 2022). It cannot be concluded that the region would become impoverished due to the loss of work, the PBL states. The planning authority notes that the number of jobs increased in virtually all municipalities during the study period. And the number of available jobs per capita has increased everywhere.
Except Amsterdam
There are reservations about this. For example, the increase in the number of available jobs per capita in some municipalities can be explained by a decline in the number of residents rather than an increase in the number of jobs. And the Randstad as a whole may not necessarily be a bigger job magnet than the rest of the Netherlands, but Amsterdam is an exception.
The number of jobs in the capital has grown every year between 1996 and 2022. “In the Netherlands, there is therefore not so much an increasing concentration of jobs in the (outskirts) of the city, but primarily in Amsterdam,” the PBL researchers note. This is primarily due to growth in the financial sector, as well as in the “business services” and “consumer services” sectors.
But apart from Amsterdam, the picture is the same across the country. There are municipalities inside and outside the Randstad where the share of the total number of jobs in the Netherlands has increased or decreased. Rotterdam is an example of a large city (in the Randstad) where there are relatively fewer jobs than in 1996.
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