[chasingsparks]

The economic freedom of the world reports by the Fraiser institute provide rankings based on things like costs of tax compliance, respect for contracts, legal systems, etc.

The country tables can be found at: http://www.freetheworld.com/2009/reports/world/EFW2009_ch4.p...

All chapters, including collection methodology can be found: http://www.freetheworld.com/release.html

[tocomment]

Excellent, now cross reference that with the difficulty of obtaining citzenship/work visa for each country for an American and I'll be all set.