Swiss youth worry more about pensions than immigration: survey

A total of 53 percent of Swiss youth surveyed claimed they are worried about their pensions, compared with 41 percent last year, the barometer has found.

Immigration, which preoccupied almost half those surveyed last year, only registered as a concern among 29 percent surveyed this year.

Swiss youngsters are more optimistic when it comes to the job market.

Only 34 percent felt their job would disappear due to the threat posed by digitization compared with almost three out of four young people in the United States, Brazil and Singapore, said the report.

Swiss youth are also the exception when it comes to the kind of jobs they preferred.

Information technology is the most popular labor sector by far in other countries, for example in the United States 75 percent, in Brazil 72 percent.

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