This project will be the ‘backbone’ of the programme and has a theoretical and future-oriented aim, namely integrating the various outcomes in order to construct a framework and roadmap for studying total worker wellbeing.

Title: Quality of work and total worker wellbeing among multiple jobholders.

This project has theoretical and future-oriented aim, integrating the outcomes of all projects in order to construct a framework and roadmap for studying total worker wellbeing. This project will be the ‘backbone’ of the programme.

UNDERSTANDING THE QUALITY AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORKING MULTIPLE JOBS

Research questions include:

  • How is quality of work and wellbeing at work conceptualised, classified and measured in the literature?
  • How can we translate the conceptualisations and findings into a validated scale to measure total worker wellbeing (extensive and short version)?
  • How stable or dynamic are dimensions of quality and total worker wellbeing across time?
This project is carried out by the Principal Investigator. The preparatory work of the PI in the initial phase of the project will help the PhD researchers and the postdoctoral researcher to jumpstart their projects.

This project is most strongly connected to the following research problems:

  • How are the quality and wellbeing at work of MJHs conceptualised, classified and measured, and how can we arrive at a holistic interpretative framework of total worker wellbeing?
  • 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? Feel free to reach out to the PI of the project.

More information about the other projects:

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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