It is one of the north/north-west european countries, one of the "example" states (not Germany. If it was Germany, changing job would not be a problem)

General characteristics are:

- high taxes (+50%), low salaries (compared to purchase power of similar positions in US) - close salary bands (so close that it is not uncommon to see managers,architects, leads only making 100-200 Eur more than the engineers in the team, regardless of experience etc. So it does not pay off to advance for people since they get more responsibility and almost nothing in return) - Very difficult and costly to fire someone even if that one does nothing in work. Due to this, many people prefer salary rather than share.

Since high taxes and high employment costs, it is very difficult and expensive to start a company. This hurts the innovative move a lot.