Rising self-employment may indicate growing precarity. This article investigates poverty in self-employment in the UK using a large-scale official household survey for 2010 to 2019 through a focus on material deprivation. The principal finding is that, after controlling for the selective nature of self-employment, self-employed households may experience higher levels of material deprivation than employed ones. This is particularly so for those without children and access to welfare and other support that children may bring. This finding is consistent with previous research on the reliability of self-employment earnings data. It also may highlight the impact of precarious self-employment on low earning households. This is apparent in detailed analysis of earnings and material deprivation gaps at different points of the distribution, where self-employed households rely more on the income of one self-employed earner.

自雇人数的增加可能表明不稳定性增加。本文使用 2010 年至 2019 年的大规模官方家庭调查，重点关注物质剥夺，调查了英国自营职业的贫困状况。主要发现是，在控制了自营职业的选择性后，自营职业家庭的物质匮乏程度可能高于就业家庭。对于那些没有孩子并获得儿童可能带来的福利和其他支持的人来说尤其如此。这一发现与之前关于个体经营收入数据可靠性的研究一致。它还可能突出不稳定的自营职业对低收入家庭的影响。这在对分配不同点的收入和物质剥夺差距的详细分析中很明显，