The decision to moonlight: does second job holding by the self‐employed and employed differ?

Atherton, Andrew; Faria, Jo�ão Ricardo; Wheatley, Daniel; Wu, Dongxu; Wu, Zhongmin

doi:10.1111/irj.12135

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“…Importantly, self-employed homeworkers indicate that they would like a new job with a new employer, offering some evidence of lower job quality. Self-employed homeworkers are more likely to be women, consistent with the use of home as a workplace due to household constraints and/or lower capitalisation among women-owned SMEs (Atherton et al, 2016). These workers are engaged in a range of different occupations encompassing associate professional, skilled trade and lower-skilled (caring, leisure and personal services, process, plant and machine operatives) jobs.…”

Section: Homeworkersmentioning

confidence: 94%

Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Wheatley

2020

Urban Studies

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Recent growth in flexible work which is detached from traditional urban workplaces, including homeworking, mobile working and forms of self-employment (gig work), has increased interest in the quality of work. This article compares job quality indicators between urban-based workers in standard (employer/business premises) and non-standard (homeworking, driving/travelling, mobile working) workplaces. Multinomial logistic regression is applied to UK panel data from four waves (2010–2011, 2012–2013, 2014–2015, 2016–2017) of the Understanding Society study. The analysis finds that urban-based employees working at home, predominantly in highly skilled occupations, have jobs which exhibit a number of characteristics of good work. Self-employed homeworkers, more often women, have lower job quality but leisure satisfaction benefits. Mobile working jobs offer greater spatial and temporal flexibility and job satisfaction, but also exhibit lower quality characteristics evident of trade-offs and divisions between forms of mobile work. Driving/travelling jobs exhibit lower job quality characteristics, especially among self-employed urban-based workers.

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Section: Homeworkersmentioning

confidence: 94%

Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Wheatley

2020

Urban Studies

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“…Research on how MJH impacts the work–life interface generally supports the depletion logic. MJHers, particularly those who are primarily self-employed (Atherton, Faria, Wheatley, Wu, & Wu, 2016), report working more hours than SJHers (Bamberry & Campbell, 2012), leaving less time for family. For example, a diary study revealed that because MJHers worked, on average, 2 hr more per day, had more variation in hours, and required longer commutes, they had less time for household activities and leisure than SJHers (Marucci-Wellman, Lin, Willetts, Brennan, & Verma, 2014).…”

Section: A Systematic Review Of the Mjh Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Multiple Jobholding: An Integrative Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Campion

Caza

Moss

2019

Journal of Management

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Despite sizable but varying estimates of multiple jobholding (MJH) and decades of research across disciplines (e.g., management, economics, sociology, health and medicine), our understanding of MJH is rather limited. The purpose of this review is to provide a coherent synthesis of the literature on MJH, or working more than one job. Beginning with a discussion of the motivations and demographic predictors that forecast MJH, we note a distinct divide between the research that predicts MJH and the research that examines outcomes, with few studies exploring how motivations might relate to MJH experiences and outcomes. Another significant observation in this review is the inconsistency of findings across and within disciplines regarding whether MJH is depleting or enriching. Using this framework to organize our review, we attempt to reconcile the generally mixed results by presenting research on mechanisms and boundary conditions of MJH to explain how and when multiple jobholders (MJHers) are depleted or enriched. By integrating findings from the literature, we are able to articulate more clearly the paths of depletion and enrichment and discuss how push versus pull-based motivations to hold multiple jobs likely predict these pathways. Finally, we provide a strategic agenda highlighting areas where additional research is urgently needed to equip scholars with practical knowledge on how to help MJHers manage their multiple work roles and how to help organizations manage MJHers.

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“…Two, workers may “job package,” choosing to work a second job or portfolio of jobs to gain flexibility in hours or variety in tasks. Although income targets and job insecurity metrics could be added to the constrained/packaging typology, it can be argued that they are covered within the definitions of these categories (Atherton et al, 2016).…”

Section: Motivations For Multiple Jobholdingmentioning

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Moonlighting to the Side Hustle: The Effect of Working an Extra Job on Household Poverty for Households With Less Formal Education

Scott

Edwards

Stanczyk

2020

Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Service

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Although working more than one job to avoid economic hardship is not a new strategy for U.S. workers, official estimates suggest it is infrequent. These may not, however, include new conceptualizations of work like “side hustles.” To understand who works multiple jobs and its effect on economic well-being, we expanded the definition and used the Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate (a) prevalence and (b) the effect of secondary earnings on household poverty. We found that 18.2% of households held multiple jobs and that secondary earnings reduced household poverty, and more effectively for consistent multiple jobholders. Integrating this understanding into economic well-being practice and policy interventions that expand employee benefits could better support multiple jobholding as a poverty reduction strategy.

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The decision to moonlight: does second job holding by the self‐employed and employed differ?

Cited by 22 publications

References 48 publications

Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Workplace location and the quality of work: The case of urban-based workers in the UK

Multiple Jobholding: An Integrative Systematic Review and Future Research Agenda

Moonlighting to the Side Hustle: The Effect of Working an Extra Job on Household Poverty for Households With Less Formal Education

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