Analysis: Britain’s graduate exodus has a price tag

Some 195,000 people under 35 left the UK in the year to June, according to the Office for National Statistics. For the businesses trying to hire the ones who stayed, that's a shrinking pool of talent at exactly the wrong time.

It's tempting to read this as a story about disillusioned twentysomethings chasing sunshine and lower taxes. It's really a story about supply and demand. The number of graduate roles advertised on Reed.co.uk has fallen from 180,000 four years ago to just 50,000 last year.

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