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Road to recovery: Self-employed on the mend?

Robert Blackburn, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura


The eighth LSE-CEP survey of the self-employed shows weekly hours of the self-employed are now seeing some signs of recovery, compared with the last data collection in June 2023. The positive increase in work hours is translating into improvements in wellbeing, especially among the younger age groups.


29 January 2026     Paper Number CEPSP53

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This CEP report is published under the centre's Labour programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Labour market dynamics, Work and wellbeing