Many experienced professionals like them are swelling a wave of emigration by some of Portugal’s best qualified workers as university leavers seeking better opportunities abroad are joined by skilled people in their thirties and forties who feel stuck in dead-end careers.
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The difference this time is that, unlike the poorly educated, largely agricultural workers who left in the 1960s, today’s emigrants have university degrees and are often highly skilled professionals. “We’re losing some of our best and brightest,” says Mr Peixoto. “The people who are leaving now are young, urban and educated.”
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