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However the points system is not a slam dunk. You have to get 100 pts and its not as easy as it sounds. I have a BA degree, from a school qualifying in the top 100 for bonus points, and my degree is in a 'positive' industry, getting bonus points, and I have the maximum points allowed for work experience in a 'positive' industry, I'm native English speaking, getting max points for a language, and I'm still short. Education is huge. If I had a Masters or PhD I'd have it. As it stands I'll have to learn a bit of Danish to get those extra points and tip the scales. It's work up front, but seems in light of the economy maybe the most safe choice.
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What you describe as the points system in Denmark seems to work pretty much like the points systems in Canada, Australia and elsewhere. They are looking to pick off the "cream" of the potential expats - well-educated, already relatively fluent in the local language and (most importantly) unlikely to need social services in the near future. The main thing is employability, which takes you back to the same issue with the regular old employer-related work visa.
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So when you hear about good affordable health care in Europe this is actually a part of good company benefits, not government policies. Interesting. So basically European companies just treat their people a little better
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No. In most European countries, the employer has no choice in the matter of "benefits." If you want to employ someone, you have to pay the employer's share of all social insurances, including health care and retirement. And you have to withhold the employee's share from whatever you are paying them. (Including for your cleaning lady who comes round only once a week for a couple hours.) It's still the government system, even if there might be a private option for health insurance. It's one of the reasons that jobs are so hard to come by in Europe - in France, for example, the employer winds up paying an additional 40% of your gross salary in government-mandated "benefits." And, with the restrictions on firing people once hired, employers think long and hard before hiring someone they may have to pay dearly to get rid of.
Cheers,
Bev