Word: flückiger
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...recruited hundreds of thousands of unskilled foreign workers to fill low-paying jobs. By the 1990s, there were approximately 500,000 living permanently in Switzerland. When the crunch came, even though overall unemployment remained low at 2.6%, "a large number of poorly qualified people lost their jobs," says Yves Fl?ckiger, who studies poverty trends at the University of Geneva. To slow immigration, the Justice Ministry has proposed a draft law that would limit work permits primarily to highly skilled E.U. nationals. Though there is no national minimum wage, welfare payments administered by individual municipalities are available to the needy...
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