The US is profoundly different. Very few developed countries have at-will employment.
It puts immigrants at risk of being fired and losing health insurance in any moment and with 0 warning.
This creates a very exploitative environment.
Not to mention how difficult it is to immigrate, or to get a green card or citizenship compared to many other countries.
At-will employment has pros and cons. It’s not like citizens have permanent employment contracts and immigrants have at-will arrangements. Employers are more willing to hire if firing someone who doesn’t work out isn’t ruinous for the employer. It’s true that someone who emigrates from a country where they have a permanent employment arrangement is giving something up to come to the US. Presumably, they think it’s worth it.
And no other country than the US has 0 paid vacation days and 0 paid public holydays!
The other day I was checking number of paid vacations per country, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b..., the US is the only country ns the world with 0 total paid leave.
The vast majority of US states do not even guarantee any paid sick leave.
https://www.patriotsoftware.com/blog/payroll/state-mandated-...
All together this has the effect of increasing employers' leverage over employees, especially in industries with limited jobs and lots of competition for them.
Compared with which countries?
I think Canada’s express entry is a good example as well.
That's just possible for some markets. If you are talking about your own experience, that's because you are probably software developer.
Canada and Australia are definitely not easier, but more transparent.
It's still a good deal. Non-IT professionals can get a PR status in 4 years.
German education accreditation for Blue Card is rather fickle.
Germany maintains a rather short list of universities per-country which it recognises as institutes of higher learning.
You may have a rather ordinary uni degree in mainstream occupation, but if your uni is not on the list, you can't do anything.
If you passed a university program in a recognised university, but your program is missing from a dropdown list on their website, again, you can't do anything.
And if you have both, but your degree does not state in its title verbatim that it is a bachelor, or masters program regardless of years of study, again, you can't do anything about it.
You're right, that happened to me in 2014. My then-employer had to drive to some government office and ask them to give a go-ahead for my degree. But I've never heard anything like that since that time.