| dc.description.abstract | Moonlighting; holding two or more jobs by
one individual has become a key feature in the current
labour market in Sri Lanka. The majority of professionals
moonlight due to financial motives, heterogeneity
motives, flexibility motives or hours constraint motives.
The main objective of this paper is to identify the
determinants of moonlighting of teaching professionals
in Sri Lanka. Teaching professionals recorded the highest
rate of moonlighting among the professionals. The study
uses two Labour Force Survey (LFS) data of 2015 and
2016, taken from the Department of Census and Statistics
of Sri Lanka. It includes 2,705 observations on teaching
professionals. Binary logit regression model was used
for the regression with moonlighting as the dependent
variable. The study revealed that moonlighting among
teaching professionals increases with age at a decreasing
rate since opportunities are based on the experience. Male
professionals have a high probability of moonlighting
compared to females who face the triple burden of their
productive, reproductive and social productive roles.
Primary working hours make a negative impact on
moonlighting hours. Increased literacy skills in Sinhala
and English increase the probability of moonlighting.
Being a school teaching professional has significant
positive relationship with moonlighting compared to
non-schooling teaching professionals. This might be
due to hours constraint motive and the financial motive.
Further, wage policies and the regulatory policies towards
moonlighting would help to increase the efficiency of the
education sector of Sri Lanka. | en_US |
