Flexible working

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Flexible working

A labour market that adjusts quickly to changes in the demand for and supply of labour. Characteristics include flexible employment contracts and flexible pay.

Micro Case Study: Uber and Labour Markets

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In the News Teaching Activity – Can the job of a CEO be shared successfully? (Jan 2026)

19th January 2026
Flexible Labour Markets Explained

18th April 2025
In the News Teaching Activity – the government plans to improve workers’ rights (Oct 2024)

17th October 2024
Labour Markets | Classroom Posters / Handouts

Poster / Student Handout
In the News Teaching Activity: Claudia Goldin Awarded Economics Nobel for Work on Women’s Pay (Oct 2023)

19th October 2023
3.5.2 Labour Supply (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Teaching PowerPoints
Does a Four-Day Week Lift Productivity?

22nd February 2023
How a worker exodus is hitting growth in the UK

20th December 2022
2022 Exams - Policies to Increase Labour Supply

Topic Videos
Labour Market Diagrams - Six Short Revision Videos

Topic Videos
Labour Shortages - Passage from India

19th April 2022
Britain's Million Missing Workers

2nd February 2022
Elasticity of Labour Supply - HGV Skills Bootcamp

12th December 2021
Labour supply - lorry driver shortage threatens to cause a surge in cost-push inflation

8th July 2021
Lone parents benefitting from rising employment

2nd September 2016
Gig Economy - Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers not self-employed (Updated)

21st February 2021
A* Evaluation on Flexible Labour Markets

Topic Videos
Advantages and disadvantages of labour market flexibility

Study Notes
Growing number of working homeless

23rd July 2018
Plumber wins 'gig economy' case

15th June 2018
UK Employment Rate (Update Summer 2018)

Topic Videos
Economics of the Gig Economy

11th July 2017
Labour markets - what jobs do UK workers actually do?

24th May 2017
Zero-Hours Contracts Turned Upside Down in New Zealand

18th March 2016
The Happy Band of the Self Employed

15th October 2014
Rising non-standard workers and growing inequality

21st May 2015
Steep Rise in Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

2nd September 2015

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Micro Case Study: Uber and Labour Markets

In the News Teaching Activity – Can the job of a CEO be shared successfully? (Jan 2026)

Flexible Labour Markets Explained

In the News Teaching Activity – the government plans to improve workers’ rights (Oct 2024)

Labour Markets | Classroom Posters / Handouts

In the News Teaching Activity: Claudia Goldin Awarded Economics Nobel for Work on Women’s Pay (Oct 2023)

3.5.2 Labour Supply (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

Does a Four-Day Week Lift Productivity?

How a worker exodus is hitting growth in the UK

2022 Exams - Policies to Increase Labour Supply

Labour Market Diagrams - Six Short Revision Videos

Labour Shortages - Passage from India

Britain's Million Missing Workers

Elasticity of Labour Supply - HGV Skills Bootcamp

Labour supply - lorry driver shortage threatens to cause a surge in cost-push inflation

Lone parents benefitting from rising employment

Gig Economy - Supreme Court rules Uber drivers are workers not self-employed (Updated)

A* Evaluation on Flexible Labour Markets

Advantages and disadvantages of labour market flexibility

Growing number of working homeless

Plumber wins 'gig economy' case

UK Employment Rate (Update Summer 2018)

Economics of the Gig Economy

Labour markets - what jobs do UK workers actually do?

Zero-Hours Contracts Turned Upside Down in New Zealand

The Happy Band of the Self Employed

Rising non-standard workers and growing inequality

Steep Rise in Zero Hours Contracts in the UK

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