In this project we will
research all groups of MJHs in seven advanced economies and focus on transitions, career development and wellbeing.

Title: Career pathways

In this project we focus on transitions, career development and wellbeing among different types of multiple jobholders in seven advanced economies.

UNDERSTANDING THE QUALITY AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORKING MULTIPLE JOBS

Research questions include:

  • How do meso-level factors (industries, competition, organisations) affect workers’ behaviour to start working multiple jobs (both from the deprivation and energic hypothesis)?
  • How do organisations enhance or deteriorate the quality of work and wellbeing of multiple jobholders?
  • Under what conditions do multiple jobholders develop skills that can be transferred between jobs? How does human capital accumulation in one or more of the jobs affect later working life?

This project is carried out by a PhD researcher and takes a multi-method approach. The PhD will start with a literature review on human capital accumulation and skills diversification among multiple jobholders, and integrate policy analysis in his or her initial chapters of the dissertation. The empirical chapters will be based on analyses of the survey data (first wave) on getting to a classification of quality of work and wellbeing among MJHs and the influence of meso-level factors on prevalence, quality and wellbeing. The final empirical chapter will be based on analyses of the dynamic app data and analyses the embeddedness of multiple jobholding.

This project is strongly connected to the following research problems:

  • How can we explain differences in the quality of work and total worker wellbeing in terms of the characteristics of the individual (micro-level), the industry and organisation (meso-level) and the institutional context (macro-level), as well as the interaction between these levels?
  • How stable or dynamic are different dimensions of quality and total worker wellbeing across time, for instance in terms of income and intensity, and total wellbeing? What are the positive and negative consequences for workers of combining multiple jobs, also measured over a longer period of time?

Any questions about this project? Please contact the PI of the project
or the PhD researcher working on this topic.

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More than 40% no longer works
multiple jobs after a few years
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In Germany alone, around 2 million workers
have a second job
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Official MJH levels are up to 10% of the national workfoces in several EU countries