One in six foreign-born workers experience precarious work, finds Resolution Foundation
Analysis revealed that among foreign-born workers without UK citizenship, around one in six (460,000 total), were in some form of precarious work.
The UK’s 6.8 million foreign-born workers are more likely to experience precarious work than British-born staff, with one in six working in some form of atypical employment, research by the Resolution Foundation has revealed.
The analysis revealed that among foreign-born workers without UK citizenship, around one in six (460,000 total), were in some form of precarious work including flexible or temporary contracts, gig economy employment, or self-employment.
Around one in 10 (11%) UK-born workers were in precarity.
Their increased precarity is not explained by age, sex or qualification level.
Indeed, the fact that foreign-born workers are usually more highly qualified than those born in the UK, should make them less, not more, likely to be in precarious work.
The likelihood of precarious work dropped for foreign-born workers the longer they stay in the UK, but never fully converged with that of UK-born workers.
Those who arrived less than five years ago were 2.4 times as likely to be in precarious work, dropping to 1.5 times after five years, and only 1.2 times for foreign-born UK citizens.
More than one in 10 recently arrived foreign-born (122,000 total) were on contracts with variable hours set by their employers, compared to 7% of UK-born workers.
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