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After World War II, Switzerland experienced an economic boom that fuelled a demand for labour. Agreement-based recruitment programs with southern European countries, particularly Italy, [2] Spain, [3] and Portugal, facilitated the arrival of thousands of “guest workers.” During this period, Switzerland’s immigration laws centred on ...
The net immigration is 80,000 people per year, 1% of the total population (three times more than e.g. in Germany, four times more than in the United States). Every year 30,000 to 40,000 receive Swiss nationality (this represents a per capita rate of about three times that of both Germany and the United States).
In 2013 there were a total of 1,937,447 permanent residents (23.8% of the total population of 8.14 million) in Switzerland. [27] [28] The majority (1.65 million, 85% of the total immigrants and 20.2% of the total population) came from Europe. The following chart shows permanent resident numbers from selected regions and countries every 5 years.
We decided to move to Switzerland in search of the lifestyle we wanted. My family moved to Switzerland 8 years ago. We couldn't find the type of life we wanted in the US.
The flat tax abolition proposal called for residents and non-working foreigners to be taxed based only on their income and their assets, [14] whilst the immigration cap proposal put forward by Ecopop called for preserving natural resources by limiting immigration to Switzerland to 0.2% of the population per year.
In the three years since relocating, the Taylors saved around $140,000 or $46,000 per year thanks to a lower cost of living. The money allowed them to put their son through college, pay off their ...
The rate of GDP growth dropped to 1.2% in 2001; 0.4% in 2002; and minus 0.2% in 2003. This economic slowdown had a noticeable impact on the labour market . Many companies announced mass dismissals and thus the unemployment rate rose from its low of 1.6% in September 2000 to a peak of 4.3% in January 2004, [ 17 ] although well below the European ...
Life expectancy has dropped slightly in the age of COVID – for women, the age dropped from 79.9 in 2020 to 79.1 in 2021, and for men, it dropped from 74.2 to 73.2 in the same period.