Abstract

Multiple job holding can be stimulated for various reasons, from financial difficulties to interest in a different career. Remote working, a newly dominant phenomenon in the working environment, can be a driving force for multiple job holding. This paper investigates how pandemic and remote working affects the decision to moonlight during and after the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada using data from the Labor Force Survey of Canada between 2007 and 2022. The findings suggest that, in general, the probability of taking a second job and hours spent in that have not increased during the pandemic and post-pandemic.