European Mobility and the UK Graduate Labour Market

Abstract

Richard Pearson examines the extent to which the UK labour market for graduates is being affected by mobility to and from the continental European labour market and considers the likelihood of further changes as the completion of the Single European Market becomes a reality. He begins by providing the context of the main trends in the supply and demand for graduates in the UK, and then examines available evidence on the scale of flows into and out of the UK in areas of graduate employment. He follows this with an account of the latest evidence on how UK employers are becoming involved in recruitment from continental Europe before drawing conclusions about the circumstances in which the labour flows are likely to change in the 1990s.