Johansson Edvard
Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Helsinki, Finland.
Eur J Health Econ. 2004 Dec;5(4):335-40. doi: 10.1007/s10198-004-0244-3.
We investigate whether an increase in hours worked per employed person raises the total mortality rate in a sample of 23 OECD countries. We build on earlier research but extend the analysis by introducing the number of hours worked per employed as an additional regressor. Contrary to our expectations, we found that an increase in the number of hours worked actually has significantly negative effect on mortality rate, even controlling for income. Although one explanation may be that fluctuations in hours of work is in fact in this setting more a measure of the capacity use rate of the economy than a measure of how stressful work is for individuals who are working, more research on the topic is needed to find a plausible explanation for the observed phenomenon.
我们研究了在23个经合组织国家的样本中，每个就业人员工作时长的增加是否会提高总死亡率。我们基于早期研究开展此项工作，但通过引入每个就业人员的工作时长作为一个额外的回归变量来扩展分析。与我们的预期相反，我们发现工作时长的增加实际上对死亡率有显著的负面影响，即使在控制了收入因素的情况下也是如此。尽管一种解释可能是，在这种情况下，工作时长的波动实际上更多地是衡量经济产能利用率的指标，而非衡量工作对在职个人压力大小的指标，但仍需要对此主题进行更多研究，以找到对所观察到的现象的合理的解释。
