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Problem with that assessment: Switzerland doesn't have a lot of illegal immigrants or even a lot of low-skilled legal immigrants for that matter. Even if there
by bayesianhorse 12y ago
Problem with that assessment: Switzerland doesn't have a lot of illegal immigrants or even a lot of low-skilled legal immigrants for that matter.
Even if there were illegal immigrants being displaced, where would the supply of legal labor come from, suddenly? Certainly not from the jobless. It's simply an illusion that people on a broad scale would choose unemployment because of low wages...
- NicoJuicy 12y agoSwitzerland even wants to limit immigrants who come to work in Swiss. They introduced immigration quotes, which is illegal for the EU : http://goo.gl/xBmX12 http://goo.gl/xBmX12
- bayesianhorse 12y agoOh, that issue is even more complicated. For one thing, Switzerland isn't in the EU, but they benefit and depend more than they'd like to admit from trading with the EU and from highly skilled immigrants they don't have to pay to educate. So they do have certain treaties about free trade, and mobility of workers is an important condition in these treaties. In breaking the treaty, there will be at least some consequences. Also, the opinion about immigrants in Switzerland seems to be very complicated. People seem to both feel "We have to much immigration", but they don't want to get rid of the immigrants they know and depend on. For that matter, they think there are too many Germans in Switzerland, on the other hand their economy extremely depends on those immigrants. The government will be hard pressed to find enough immigrants they can get rid of without serious consequences and even antagonizing those voters who voted for the restrictions in the first place.