Q&A on Self-employed Workers in the UK, Feb 2013

Interview with Jamie Jenkins (Labour Market Analyst) explaining the characteristics of self-employed workers in the UK.

He talks about the differences in the those self-employed and those who are employees before exploring the characteristics off the self-employed workers in 2012.

Finally he talks about the changes in the number of people working as self-employed since 2008.

Source: Office for National Statistics

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