Seeking Extra Work: Determinants of Moonlighting in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Moonlighting is defined as the holding of two or more jobs by a single person. As found in the literature, people moonlight due to several reasons including hours constrained motive, heterogeneous jobs motive, financial motive and the flexibility motive. Moonlighting can uplift the living standards of the family while having some negative consequences for the welfare of the individual, the family, and the firms due to increasing stress levels, work-family spill-over and spill-over between primary and the secondary employment. The main objective of this study is to identify the factors associated with moonlighting in Sri Lanka.