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Irish graduates are highly mobile in an international labour market .
Six years after graduation in 1992, one third of graduates had emigrated to work abroad at some stage, and about half of these had returned to work in Ireland. These are among the findings of the Graduate Labour Market Survey, a follow-up survey of recipients of educational awards from Irish third level institutions in 1992 conducted by the ESRI on behalf of the Department of Education and Science in 1998. The population for the survey consisted of 22,000 graduates of third-level institutions, including both university and technological colleges, from which was drawn a nationally representative random sample of 3,200. More than half of those who received primary degrees in 1992 furthered their educational qualifications, completing postgraduate diplomas, masters and doctorates in the six years after their initial graduation. While the majority of graduates who did continue in education did so on a continuous basis, a substantial minority, almost one-quarter, left education at some time in their educational career for a period of six months or more before returning to complete their studies.