narrow base of occupational requirements. On top of that, each country finds its own specialty niches. In Bermuda these are tourism and international insurance businesses. Small countries have small populations. With a small population a country cannot hope to provide all the specialists needed. For this reason, economically successful small countries can be expected to have a high percentage of foreign labour in their workforce.

Data are available for only three countries. The percentage of foreign labour in the workforce in Bermuda is 23%. This compares with 33% in Luxembourg and 60% in Liechtenstein. In the latter country the resident foreign workforce is 24%, almost the same as Bermuda, but fully 36% of Liechtenstein's workforce is foreign and commutes daily to work from neighbouring countries. In service economies of successful small countries, where specialist jobs are created, the situation develops where there are few occupations which are in great demand. In Bermuda there are about 430 specific occupations, non-Bermudians are employed in 330 of them. However, 65% of the foreign workforce is employed in only 35 occupations (8% of the total). Half the foreign working population is employed in just 17 occupations (4%). A third of the foreign workers are employed in just 7 occupations (less than 2%)

 

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