You might be interested in this article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/us-denmark-economy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opini

You might be interested in this article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/us-denmark-economy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/us-denmark... (note that technically, Denmark has no minimum wage - but mechanism that essentially enforce the same) A few quotes here: > Starting pay for the humblest burger-flipper at McDonald’s in Denmark is about $22 an hour once various pay supplements are included. > Americans might suspect that the Danish safety net encourages laziness. But 79 percent of Danes ages 16 to 64 are in the labor force, five percentage points higher than in the United States.