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27/09/2013
Highly-Educated Are Majority Of Irish Emigrants
A disproportionate number of highly-educated young people are leaving Ireland, a year-long study of emigration has shown.
Researchers from UCC's Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and Department of Geography found that 62% of people leaving Ireland for other countries have a tertiary qualification of three years or more.
The figures were gather by way of 2,400 door-to-door interviews.
Emigration now stands at four times that of 2006, with one-in-four households in rural Ireland affected by emigration.
The full study, Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity, can be found on the University College Cork website.
(MH/JP)
Researchers from UCC's Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and Department of Geography found that 62% of people leaving Ireland for other countries have a tertiary qualification of three years or more.
The figures were gather by way of 2,400 door-to-door interviews.
Emigration now stands at four times that of 2006, with one-in-four households in rural Ireland affected by emigration.
The full study, Irish Emigration in an Age of Austerity, can be found on the University College Cork website.
(MH/JP)
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