Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33443 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1671
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality by sex of moonlighting and moonlighting hours. We find that, once we account for the sample selection into employment, both men and women exhibit procyclical moonlighting probabilities. Likewise, moonlighting hours for male multiple job holders are procyclical. These findings contradict the frequent claim that moonlighting increases during economic downturns due to economic hardship. Instead, moonlighting appears responsive to growing employment opportunities during economic expansions. At any rate, the systematic variation of moonlighting over the business cycle may have implications for the procyclical nature of real wages.
Subjects: 
moonlighting
multiple job holding
business cycles
U.S.
JEL: 
J2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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