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> The Swiss unemployment rate, around 3.5%, ... Warning! Swiss unemployment statistics often consider only people who have been looking for a job for at most t
by pif 10y ago
> The Swiss unemployment rate, around 3.5%, ...
Warning! Swiss unemployment statistics often consider only people who have been looking for a job for at most two years. After two years, you can apply for long-term social care and, astonishingly(?), you are not counted any more as "unemployed".
- AbcLala 10y agoAnd also there is a large number of immigrants who prefers to return to their home countries after their first gig or when they get unemployed. Almost 37% of the population have no Swiss background. In 6 years in Switzerland(yeah personal anecdote), I have yet seen someone being actually fired. They rather let them go, and then these people don't find another job and go back to their home countries. It takes about 6month~to get a new jobs, even when your skills are supposedly in demand. My point, the low % of unemployment is thanks to migrants, not because the job market is "great".