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Self-Employment in Britain: Recent Trends and Current Issues

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  • Catherine Hakim

    (Department of Employment Steel House Tothill Street, LONDON SW1H 9NF)

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This paper reviews trends in self-employment up to the 1980s and beyond, and looks at the composition and characteristics of the self-employed workforce. It examines the causes of the current rise in self-employment - in particular employers' strategy of transferring jobs and functions from their `core' workforce of full-time permanent employees to a `peripheral' workforce which includes self-employed labour-only subcontractors as well as part-time workers and people with limited duration contracts of employment. It looks at the recent inflow to self-employment - in particular the importance of involuntary entrants. It examines the ideology of self-employment, and whether it differs substantively from the work orientations of employees. Problems of definition and measurement are summarised. The review concludes with pointers for further research - both qualitative and quantitative.

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  • Catherine Hakim, 1988. "Self-Employment in Britain: Recent Trends and Current Issues," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 2(4), pages 421-450, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:2:y:1988:i:4:p:421-450
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017088002004002
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    1. D. J. Storey & S. Johnson, 1987. "Job Generation and Labour Market Change," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-1-349-18850-5, October.
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    3. Dietrich, Hans, 1999. "Empirische Befunde zur selbständigen Erwerbstätigkeit unter besonderer Berücksichtigung scheinselbständiger Erwerbsverhältnisse (Empirical findings on self-employment taking particular account of nomi," Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 32(1), pages 85-101.
    4. Valdez Zulema, 2012. "Self-Employment as an Indicator of Segmented Assimilation among Six Ethnic Minority Groups," Entrepreneurship Research Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 2(4), pages 1-28, October.
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    6. Henning Lohmann, 2001. "Self-employed or employee, full-time or part-time? Gender differences in the determinants and conditions for self-employment in Europe and the US," MZES Working Papers 38, MZES.

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