2. Overall results Table 1 presents employment outcomes for international and domestic graduates by study level, for 2019 to 2021. Two general points are readily apparent. First, there has been no further decline in graduate employment rates for both domestic and international graduates in 2021. There was a broad decline in graduate employment rates between 2019 and 2020, for both domestic and international graduates. 43.0% This was associated with general weakness in the Australian labour market observable from 2019, which was worsened in 2020 by measures introduced to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. International graduates were affected by this downturn to an even greater extent international undergraduates in than domestic graduates. Results from 2021 show some minor improvement on 2020, with undergraduate full-time employment rates up full-time employment (2021) by 0.6 percentage points for international graduates and 0.2 percentage points for domestic graduates. Second, international graduate employment rates are consistently lower than for their domestic counterparts. For undergraduates, the 2021 full-time employment rate for international graduates was 43.0 per cent compared with 68.9 per cent for domestic graduates, a difference of 25.9 percentage points. At postgraduate coursework level, the difference between international and domestic full-time 64.6% employment was larger, at 41.0 percentage points. The gap was narrower at postgraduate research level at 8.3 percentage points. international undergraduates in Table 1 Graduate employment and study outcomes by level of study, international and domestic overall employment (2021) graduates, 2019, 2020 and 2021 International Domestic 2019 2020 2021 2019 2020 2021 Full-time employment (%) Undergraduate 49.7 42.4 43.0 72.2 68.7 68.9 Postgraduate coursework 50.3 44.3 43.9 86.8 85.6 84.9 Postgraduate research 75.7 74.2 69.4 81.1 80.1 77.7 Overall employed (%) Undergraduate 65.2 62.2 64.6 86.8 85.1 84.8 Postgraduate coursework 68.7 67.2 70.1 92.7 91.6 90.8 Postgraduate research 85.5 83.8 82.2 90.7 90.0 88.1 2021 GOS International Report 2