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Among the dead were a Donetsk teacher caught in shelling and Laurent DuPasquier, a Swiss worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

"The normal Swiss worker did not see very much of the crisis," said Yngve Abrahamsen, an economist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.

A course of first-line tuberculosis treatment would cost a Swiss worker only one hour's wages, Dr. Muziki said, but would cost a Tanzanian laborer 500 hours' wages.

Gruesome video footage taken at around 7pm that evening, just hundreds of feet from Svetlana's apartment block, shows the charred corpse of Laurent DuPasquier, a 38-year-old Swiss worker for the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRCC), lying on the sidewalk.

Swiss workers put in long hours, if not as long as in America, and take shortish holidays.

Nonetheless, social tensions sometimes have been evident, particularly where foreigners were perceived to have threatened the Swiss way of life and to have displaced Swiss workers.

According to the OECD's latest country survey, 4.7% of Swiss workers did not have jobs in 1996 and that proportion grew to a post-war record of 5.4% in the first quarter of this year.

With unemployment likely to hit 5% next year (high by Swiss standards) Swiss politicians are twisting themselves in knots to find ways to shield Swiss workers from foreign competition.In these recessionary times, many rich EU governments have kept limits on workers from their club's newest, poorest members, such as Bulgaria and Romania.

Still, pension funds may make matters plainer: Dutch and Swiss workers have clear claims to the assets, but French and Greek workers have to rely on the promises of politicians.In this section Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Pension funds Markets Reprints.

And pay increases in recent years have been modest, reflecting the tougher economic environment: nominal wages in 2001 went up by 2.5% and in 2002 by only 1.8%.So far as employers are concerned, another good thing about Swiss workers is that they can be fired when necessary.

Those backing limits on migration argued that EU migrants were undercutting Swiss workers.