Multiple job holding during economic crisis: an analysis of the Brazilian case

João Vitor Silveira Pereira, Mauricio Bittencourt and Paulo de Andrade Jacinto

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 255, issue C

Abstract: Between 2014 and 2022, the Brazilian economy underwent a long-lasting economic recession. This study uses data from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Contínua) to estimate a logit model that evaluates the effects of each state’s unemployment rate on the probability of an individual’s decision to take on a second occupation. Our findings suggest that the higher unemployment rates are associated with the overall reduction of the second job opportunities, even though dummies representing the pandemic years (2020 – 2022) had positive coefficients. The main contribution of this paper is to shed light on how multiple job holding behaves in years of economic crisis in a developing country such as Brazil.

Keywords: Multiple job holding; Economic crisis; Brazilian labor market; Logit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112495

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