Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51692 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5499
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and repayment behavior in Ukraine. Based on unique nationally representative panel data, the econometric approach accounts for workers' unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in the wage shock information. The estimated labor supply responses suggest that secondary activities are used as temporary coping strategies against wage shocks and that they closely follow the lifecycle of wage arrears. Households that engage in secondary employment can successfully smooth their consumption. The results are robust to several alternative hypotheses concerning the observed labor supply pattern.
Subjects: 
dual job holding
wage shock
consumption smoothing
subsidiary farming
reaction time to shocks
JEL: 
J22
J33
P36
O17
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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