Nikhil Datta is a researcher in the labour section of LSE’s Growth Commission. His main research areas are the share of income earned by those at the bottom of the earnings distribution, and the effects of minimum wages.
There has been an increase in the number of workers engaged in atypical work arrangements across the UK and the US. In the UK, the proportion of workers who are solo self-employed (encomp...
The past two decades have seen a large increase in the number of workers engaged in “atypical” work arrangements. This type of work includes employment like zero-hour contracts (ZHCs), gi...