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In Ireland in 2009 about 9% of graduates with the highest votes would be transferred abroad for professional reasons. According to data released by the Higher Education Authority had they were just 5% the previous year and four times less now than in 2007. This confirm that because of the economic crisis the country is bringing back the historic tracks of migration which, unlike the past, now invests the high skilled workers. In fact, on 40 thousand students dismissed from universities in the academic year 2008-2009 there is over a hundred a week thath leave the country in search of more lucrative work in other nations.