European cities dominate Mercer’s Quality of Living league table
20 February 2014
European cities perform strongly in the Mercer 2014 Quality of Living rankings, with five cities in the top 10.
Thu, 20 Feb 2014European cities perform strongly in the Mercer 2014 Quality of Living rankings, with five cities in the top 10.
Vienna is the top-ranked city in the international survey, but other European cities, Zurich (2), Munich (4), Dusseldorf (6) and Frankfurt (7) feature strongly.
London places 38th. Mercer was unable to provide recruiter.co.uk with the rankings of any other UK cities.
In 25th position, Singapore is the highest-ranking city in Asia, while Dubai (73) comes top across the Middle East and Africa.
The survey by Mercer, the global human resource and related financial services consulting firm, evaluates living conditions in more than 460 cities worldwide based on 39 factors, grouped in 10 categories.
The categories include: the political and social environment, economic environment, schools and education, and housing.
Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer, says: “European cities enjoy a high overall quality of living compared to those other regions.”
Mercer publishes the annual survey to assist multinational companies and other employers in compensating employees fairly when placing them on international assignments.
Two common incentives used by companies are a ‘hardship allowance’ to compensate for a decrease in the quality of living between home and the host country, and a mobility premium to compensate staff for being uprooted to work in another country.
Vienna is the top-ranked city in the international survey, but other European cities, Zurich (2), Munich (4), Dusseldorf (6) and Frankfurt (7) feature strongly.
London places 38th. Mercer was unable to provide recruiter.co.uk with the rankings of any other UK cities.
In 25th position, Singapore is the highest-ranking city in Asia, while Dubai (73) comes top across the Middle East and Africa.
The survey by Mercer, the global human resource and related financial services consulting firm, evaluates living conditions in more than 460 cities worldwide based on 39 factors, grouped in 10 categories.
The categories include: the political and social environment, economic environment, schools and education, and housing.
Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer, says: “European cities enjoy a high overall quality of living compared to those other regions.”
Mercer publishes the annual survey to assist multinational companies and other employers in compensating employees fairly when placing them on international assignments.
Two common incentives used by companies are a ‘hardship allowance’ to compensate for a decrease in the quality of living between home and the host country, and a mobility premium to compensate staff for being uprooted to work in another country.
