Working Life Barometer in the Baltic Countries 2002 (pdf) - mol.fi

25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
20%
125
WORKING IN SECONDARY JOBS 1998 AND 2002
12%
17%
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS
ESTONIA LATVIA LITHUANIA
14%
18%
19%
13% 13%
1998 2002 1998 2002 1998 2002
Public sector Private sector
Among public-sector workers, secondary jobs have definitely decreased in
Estonia, though they are still at more or less the same level as in Latvia and
Lithuania. In the private sector in Estonia, working in secondary jobs is - despite
an increase in its percentage - still clearly less common than it is in the
public sector. In the Latvian public sector, the proportion doing two or more
jobs in 2002 was the highest in the Baltic countries - nearly one-fifth, and it
has been growing. The exceptionally great increase in Lithuania is concentrated
above all in the public sector, where working in secondary jobs has become
almost two and a half times as common as it was three years ago. In the
private sector, too, the rise has been considerable.
There have been quite a lot of changes with regard to secondary jobs during
the past three years. They are connected in many ways also to wider changes
in the quality of working life. Salaries, dealt with above, are an example of
this. The wages for secondary jobs are, in principle, included in the net salaries
discussed above. Therefore, the growth in the average salary remaining in
hand in Lithuania, for instance, may be largely due to the increase in secondary
jobs. On the whole, in 2002, the median net salary of those doing secondary
jobs was about 15-20 per cent higher than for those with no secondary
job. The changes in Latvia and Estonia during the three years have been rela-
7%
9%
18%
12%