Commuting and Sickness Absence

Abstract

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Intra‐ and inter‐regional commuting: Assessing the role of wage differentials

“…Indeed, the net effect is free of bias. 14 This is relevant because we are aware of recent studies related to the impact of commuting on absenteeism (Goerke & Lorenz, 2014;Van Ommeren & Gutiérrez-i Puigarnau, 2011) and changes in the productivity/effort when commuting time/distance increases (Ross & Zenou, 2008). Ross and Zenou (2008, p. 502), in a theoretical model on urban efficiency wages, verify how "workers who reside close to jobs will choose not to shirk whereas workers located farther away will shirk."…”

Linkage between commuting time and sickness absence in the context of China: transmission channels and heterogeneous effects

“…A large array of previous studies focused on the relationships between the commuting and the employees' labor market performance [2][3][4]. With negative externalities of the sickness absence, the nexus between the commuting and sickness absence has also attracted extensive attentions [2,5].…”

“…A large array of previous studies focused on the relationships between the commuting and the employees' labor market performance [2][3][4]. With negative externalities of the sickness absence, the nexus between the commuting and sickness absence has also attracted extensive attentions [2,5].Based on the theory of new welfare economics, long commute is viewed as an activity of timeconsumption, which is related with poor psychological and physical health outcomes [6][7][8].Accordingly, the leisure time of employees for health-promoting plans, such as physical activities, relaxation and social participation may be crowded out by the longer commuting time [9]. In addition, while the leisure could be substituted for shirking by each other, there is more likely for shirking behaviors among those employees with a longer commute time [10].…”

“…In addition, while the leisure could be substituted for shirking by each other, there is more likely for shirking behaviors among those employees with a longer commute time [10]. It implies that with the decreasing cost of absence, a longer commuting may lead to more benefit from their absence to ask for more leisure, which could be used for other purposes rather than for work [5]. Therefore, asking for "sickness" leave could be regarded as a result of rational decision.There is also no consensus reached in empirical studies.…”

“…It is a common belief that longer journeys may induce more sickness absence. A body of evidences from developed markets have confirmed that a longer commuting might increase the likelihood of illness-related absence [2,5,[11][12], but several studies also reveal that there was no evidence supporting the commute-absence effect [5,13]. More importantly, some researches provide the evidence on heterogeneous commute-absence effects.…”