In the US, there's the risk of lawsuits after you fire someone, which I guess creates the same resistance and hurdles to hiring as the added protection in the E

In the US, there's the risk of lawsuits after you fire someone, which I guess creates the same resistance and hurdles to hiring as the added protection in the EU. Plus, my personal experience is that we easily found many OK candidates in the US but had trouble finding one in the EU. That either suggests that the EU has less skilled coders overall, or that the US has a higher rate of people who are unemployed or very unhappy with their current job.