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