On the flip side, European countries had high unemployment even before the Coronavirus recession because employers were reluctant to take on new employees knowing that it's much more difficult to get rid of bad ones there than here.
Did you cherry-pick that one? Spain @ 14.2%, Italy @9.7%, France @8.5%. Spain was actually at 26.2% back in March 2013.
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_...
You can easily find dozens of countries with at will employment, and high unemployment.
And I think, Spain has actually less stringent worker protection laws than Germany.
No, not at all
Plus, my personal experience is that we easily found many OK candidates in the US but had trouble finding one in the EU. That either suggests that the EU has less skilled coders overall, or that the US has a higher rate of people who are unemployed or very unhappy with their current job.