But they can attract labour on the allotment.
The Department of Education, in its comment on the survey, makes no attempt to find other explanatory factors, only stating that "the tendency towards increased net immigration... is a positive sign of Sweden's ability to attract a foreign labour force".
A young, well-educated, cheap labour force attracted investment.
They attracted a huge manufacturing labour force, and became pioneering cities in terms of their public services, education and civic institutions.
Livestock accounts for 85percentt of the agricultural sector output, which according to preliminary official data for 2005, accounts for about 22percentt of the national product, second only to the trade sector, and is by far the first source of employment attracting 40percentt of the labour force.
Equally, if the employers dictate the rate of pay, they could not set it so low as to make it impossible to attract and retain the required labour force: they would be subject to the constraint of the supply curve of the labour concerned.
More rural labour force have been attracted into non-agricultural employments.
Investments attract because of the market, a good labour force, good infrastructure, and all of that takes tax dollars," said Christensen.
One of the factors needed to attract foreign investment is a semi-skilled labour force.
Employers are drawn by a skilled labour force, and the virtuous circle attracts other newcomers.The third is immigration.
Vast swathes of global technology businesses such as IBM, Google and Yahoo are attracted by the city's English and computer savvy labour force.
