Multiple Job-Holding as a Strategy for Skills Diversification and Labour Market Mobility

Citation

Panos G, Pouliakas K & Zangelidis A (2011) Multiple Job-Holding as a Strategy for Skills Diversification and Labour Market Mobility. The CER Working Paper Series on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, WP4. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1984075

Abstract
The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is examined, investigating, first, the determinants of multiple job-holding, second, the factors affecting the occupational choice of a secondary job, third, the relationship between multiple-job holding and job mobility and, lastly, the spillover effects of multiple job-holding on occupational mobility between primary jobs. The evidence indicates that dual job-holding may facilitate job transition, as it may act as a stepping-stone towards new primary jobs, particularly self-employment.

Keywords
Moonlighting; Occupational Choice; Human Capital; Mobility

JEL codes

• J22: Time Allocation and Labor Supply
• J24: Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• J62: Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion