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Economic literacy measures the extent to which people can appreciate the forces that significantly influence the quality of their lives. Economically literate citizens may be able to make rational choices, understand and even form opinions on policies, and are likely to feel completely part of any public debate about the economy of a country. There have not been many studies on economic literacy, especially at the tertiary level in Ghana. It is in light of this that this paper seeks to investigate the factors influencing economic literacy among undergraduate students in the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. The study addresses two research questions: 1) What is the level of economic literacy among tertiary students in Ghana? and 2) What factors influence undergraduate students' understanding of economic issues?The study employed a regression model on data collected from a sample survey of 1,366 undergraduate students in the University of Cape Coast. The results indicate that economic literacy is positively influenced by the level of the tertiary student, their SHS elective courses taken, their Cumulative Grade Point Average, interest in politics, and attendance of business/economics conferences. The study recommends that the fundamentals of economics could be introduced into the Social Studies discipline at the SHS so that all students benefit from this knowledge. The youth must be encouraged to be involved in business and politics, while Colleges and Universities should make business/economic seminars part of their curriculum.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of employment security on moonlighting in Ghana as a means to inform policy on enforcing issues of employment security.Design/methodology/approachThe paper followed the work of Shishko and Rostker (1976) by applying their approach to the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey data. The paper created an employment index from four variables and used the ordered logit as the main estimation technique.FindingsThe findings indicated that, as a person with a single job becomes more secured in employment, the likelihood of moonlighting is decreased by 0.03, while for those with two and three or more jobs, the likelihood of moonlighting increased by 0.0297 and 0.0008, respectively, with increasing employment security. This implies that, workers can be made to stick to single jobs by providing them with higher levels of employment security, but once they take on two or more jobs, providing them with employment security will engender the tendency to increase their moonlighting behavior the more.Originality/valueWith the current harsh economic conditions in the country and the urgent need for multiple jobs (moonlighting) as a risk coping mechanism, little has been done on the role employment security plays as a catalyst or otherwise. This paper fills the gap by employing a comprehensive index on employment security in the case of Ghana.