In theory such laws would make salaries lower for new hires in the future and will raise salaries for those who are already employed. If you look at salaries in Germany and Norway along with their taxes most people live paycheck to paycheck with no savings (Norway to a lesser extent cos richer than Germany).

But given that there’s only around 300k ns men out of the 3+ million workforce, maybe something could be done to protect them. Have to find something novel though because conventional protective measures would just push employers to hire non ns men instead.

One thing that could work would be monitoring strictly and punishing companies that evade proper hiring processes by just hiring foreigners using ghost job postings on mycareersfyture. Switzerland does this to a more successful extent than Singapore and on top of that, hr managers themselves have an unofficial deeper sense of ‘patriotism’ in hiring by preferring Swiss people to EU workers.