Self-employment in the UK labour market.
"The popular stereotype that the self-employed are high earning, entrepreneurial professionals is not true for the majority of cases. The self-employed are most commonly to be found in skilled trade occupations, the construction and real estate and business activity industries, most frequently in the south east or London. The first four-fifths of self-employed people in the income distribution are earning less than the first four-fifths of employees. But the highest earning one-fifth of self-employed people earn more than employees, so that the average earnings of the self-employed are
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