@techreport{3dbcca6b26f048d9adc534c29dc02dd6,
title = "First findings on the impact of COVID-19 on self-employment in the UK: Evidence from the Understanding Society household survey",
abstract = "This summary provides the first findings of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the self- employed during the first two months of the lockdown. This analysis focuses on what happened to the self-employed in terms of loss in employment/jobs, reduction in working hours and earnings, and how this plays out across different industries, regions and social groups. We do not here investigate the potential impact of the UK Government{\textquoteright}s Self- Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS), hastily announced in April 2020 once the potential impact of lockdown on the self-employed became apparent. This is because claims under the first round of the scheme remained open until mid-July 2020 and most payments made from this scheme did not start to arrive until after the analysis period in this report.",
keywords = "pandemic, COVID-19, Economic impact",
author = "Darja Reuschke and Andrew Henley and Elizabeth Daniel",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
day = "11",
language = "English",
series = "ERC Insight Papers",
publisher = "ESRC Enterprise Research Centre",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "ESRC Enterprise Research Centre",
}