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LSE on 'trapped' feeling of self-employed

July 5, 2024
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#data, #motivations, #research

I missed this when it was first published - LSE’s report into the pressures of the self-employed market post-covid, lower incomes and a feeling of being “trapped” within self-employment, authored by Maria Ventura et al.

Makes for a harrowing read, but also clearly a number of core themes which a) the support ecosystem could work together to tackle b) a number of areas for the new incoming The Labour Party government, Jonathan Reynolds and team, to think about how and where the self-employed can be better supported and c) for freelancers to be aware of the risks before taking the leap.

As this data shows, even before the election, ,there was a shift from the Tories being the party of small business, to Labour (36% say they would vote Labour in a general election), and of the 5.5M SME in the UK, that’s a sizeable portion of people the new government need to engage and support.

https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cepcovid-19-030.pdf

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