The Netherlands has adopted as its manpower policy the full employment of its human resources in an expanding economy. Activities which have been particularly successful include regional development, supplementary employment programs, social employment, and stabilization of seasonal employment in construction. Additional efforts are needed to link…

For each of the countries, the current manpower policies are described, the development of manpower policy in relation to other national goals is explained, and major elements of manpower programs are discussed. Information was obtained from selected published materials. Some general findings are: (1) Measures to achieve full employment, economic…