Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98375 
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Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Center Discussion Paper No. 781
Publisher: 
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
This article analyzes multiple job holding in the context of economic transition. Evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal survey of Russian citizens is used to characterize secondary jobs and second job holders, with emphasis on the determinants of multiple job holding. There has been a marked increase in multiple job holding, rising from 5.6 percent overall in 1992 to 10.1 percent in 1996. Economic conditions prevalent in Russia's labor market are found to strongly affect secondary job activity. Workers who have experienced wage arrears, been placed on involuntary leave, or are working less than full-time are all significantly more likely to take on second jobs. Higher education nearly doubles this probability. As transition has progressed, women have become not only much less likely to engage in additional work, but those that do so receive significantly lower second-job wages, with a gender wage gap of 68 percent, over 3 times that for primary jobs. Marriage and young children are associated with lower multiple job holding rates for women.
Subjects: 
Multiple Job Holding
Economic Transition
Russia
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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