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Moonlighting and Wage Differentials: A Case Study of the Public and Formal Private Sectors in Ghana

2026-03-26

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Purpose With widening wage gaps between Ghana’s public and private sectors, many workers engage in secondary employment (moonlighting) to supplement income and sustain living standards. This paper examines the incidence and drivers of moonlighting, focusing on how sectoral wage differentials shape such decisions. While prior studies have explored general motives for multiple jobholding...

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Literature Corpus work: 29e80989-2e58-5868-8714-ff4568defab4
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8253647/v1

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