This article maps the changing supply and demand for graduates in the 1990s. Demand growth is likely to continue into the 1990s, but the growth in the supply of graduates will come to a halt. It will not, however, go into decline as a result of the demographic downturn. 1992 will see an increase in international mobility adding to the complexity of the labour market in the 1990s. Graduates, higher education and employers will all have to adjust to this increasingly complex market in the 1990s if shortages and graduate underemployment are to be minimized.
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