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Mean MSA unemployment rates for the single and multiple job samples are highly similar (6.1 and 5.9%%).
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Because only one-in-twenty workers hold multiple jobs, sample size matters.
Based on the sample of multiple job holders, we estimate regressions in which the dependent variable is the difference in either SK or in WC between the first and second jobs (equations (4) and (5)).
Relative to the mean multiple job rate of 4.7%% in our sample, an unemployment rate 1 percentage point higher in one labor market versus another is associated with a 4 % reduction in the MJH rate (i.e., −0.002/0.047 = −0.043).
In our sample, 15.7 % of multiple job holders work in the same detailed occupation in their primary and second jobs (not shown in Table 1).
Workers self-employed in their primary job but with a wage and salary second job are counted by BLS as multiple job holders, but we exclude them from our sample given that earnings (and other) information is not provided for their self-employment job.
Total sample size is 1,850,757 with a weighted multiple job holding rate of 4.74%% (unweighted rate is 5.04) aO*NET measures SK and WC compiled for 2003 2010, with 899,255 and 46,259 single and multiple job holders, respectively.
In work not shown, we find that aging of the workforce accounts for little of the decline in multiple job holding between 1998 and 2013 (the first and last years of our sample).
I also restrict the sample to one randomly selected job opening per employer although several employers list multiple job openings in a given week.
Multiple job holding is largely acyclic.
The dependent value takes on values of −1 (multiple job leavers), 0 (single and multiple job stayers), and +1 (multiple job joiners).
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