ECONOMY
Issue #329
29 Jan 2023
By democratically voting to leave the EU in 2016, the UK made the decision to cut itself off from a significant labour market of a theoretical 400 million workers. What the implications were to be for the economy were hotly contested at the time, especially for sectors heavily dependent on EU labour - healthcare, construction, hospitality, retail.
Now, 3 years after implementation, we are have a better picture - immigration is about the same as pre-Brexit, but with non-EU replacing EU as sources of external labour. We talked about Global Mobility on Brainfood Live last Friday, and this research is a fine complement to the soundtrack. Important read for all UK recruiters.