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 motives for moonlighting provides evidence on both the wage-responsiveness of labor supply in general and the … primary jobs, then moonlighting itself implies that labor supply constraints exist and so supports the previous literature … that incorporates these constraints (e.g. Hamm 1982, 1986). Regardless of the motive for moonlighting, allowing for …

males reporting a second job in 1993 (Mishel and Bernstein, 1995, p. 226). Moonlighting reflects growing financial stress … percent of moonlighters report taking the second job due to economic hardship. Additionally, moonlighting is a reflection of … job. To restate in economic terminology, moonlighting arises from at least two distinct reasons. First, many individuals …