The employee workforce from outside
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:37 am
Background
As the figure below (Adult migrant employees in their first year of employment) shows, the period following the pandemic and the introduction of the post-Brexit immigration system saw an extremely sharp rise in new entrants to t the EU. While the number of work visas rose sharply during this period, this cannot account for the entirety of the rise, which will include people who were already resident here but had not worked before as employees, students, dependants of those arriving on student and work visas, as well as Ukrainian refugees and new arrivals from Hong Kong.
Attrition
The data shows how many people who first iran rcs data appeared in, say, 2015 were still in the dataset a few years later. If people disappear from the dataset this will not always mean that they have left the UK: some will have stopped working, for example to care for children, or become unemployed or moved to self-employment. This said, return migration is likely to be the major reason over the longer term.
Of the EU-origin migrants who registered in 2015, only about half were still on payroll in 2022 (figure below – Cohort attrition by origin). Attrition of non-EU origin migrants was lower, but still significant. Non-EU migrants who arrived in recent years appear to have somewhat lower attrition rates than earlier cohorts, perhaps reflecting in part the availability of the Graduate Visa for international students completing their studies.
As the figure below (Adult migrant employees in their first year of employment) shows, the period following the pandemic and the introduction of the post-Brexit immigration system saw an extremely sharp rise in new entrants to t the EU. While the number of work visas rose sharply during this period, this cannot account for the entirety of the rise, which will include people who were already resident here but had not worked before as employees, students, dependants of those arriving on student and work visas, as well as Ukrainian refugees and new arrivals from Hong Kong.
Attrition
The data shows how many people who first iran rcs data appeared in, say, 2015 were still in the dataset a few years later. If people disappear from the dataset this will not always mean that they have left the UK: some will have stopped working, for example to care for children, or become unemployed or moved to self-employment. This said, return migration is likely to be the major reason over the longer term.
Of the EU-origin migrants who registered in 2015, only about half were still on payroll in 2022 (figure below – Cohort attrition by origin). Attrition of non-EU origin migrants was lower, but still significant. Non-EU migrants who arrived in recent years appear to have somewhat lower attrition rates than earlier cohorts, perhaps reflecting in part the availability of the Graduate Visa for international students completing their studies.