TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina
AU  - Kimmel, Jean
        TI  - Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle
        PY  - 2005/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1671
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1671
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - business cycles
KW  - moonlighting
KW  - multiple job holding
KW  - U.S.
        ER  -