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Excess demand in the graduate employment cycle

After the lean years of the early 1970s the traditional employment of science graduates is picking up, but the result is likely to be a shortage because the graduates have found that non-traditional jobs can be quite attractive.

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Hall, J. Excess demand in the graduate employment cycle. Nature 255, 284–286 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/255284a0

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