Second job holding in Germany – a persistent feature?

Philipp Lentge ()
Additional contact information
Philipp Lentge: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

No 416, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the persistence and determinants of second job holding in Germany, especially marginal second jobs, following a legislative change allowing extensive dispensation of marginal second jobs from taxes and social security contributions. I document an upward trend in second job holding driven in particular by women. Moreover I find strong evidence for the persistence of second job holding using a dynamic panel model. Further, I identify significant gender differences in the decision to moonlight, where especially women in the lower part of the earnings distribution and women with few years of tenure are most likely to take up a second job.

Keywords: second job; marginal second job; multiple job holding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2022-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-lma
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Fors ... df/wp_416_Upload.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lue:wpaper:416

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Wagner ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).