School of Public Administration and Emergency Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Front Public Health. 2021 Mar 5;9:611162. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.611162. eCollection 2021.
Most employees in urban China have experienced a heavy commuting burden, which has become an urgent issue that should be solved in the new urbanization strategy process. However, the exploration of the relationship between the commute duration and sickness absence remains scant in China, and no direct discussion has been done to analyze the mechanism linking commute duration and sickness absence. Using a unique dataset of the 2013 China Matched Employer-Employee Survey, the present study applies a two-level random-intercept Poisson model to explore this association. A long commute is significantly related with increased sickness absence. A longer commute is associated with poorer self-rated health status and a higher degree of psychological depression, and it is also highly related with a decrease in sleeping time. Moreover, an increased commuting duration is associated with lower work effort (working hours). Longer commute duration induces lower productivity through increased sickness absence, and the potential link of commute duration and sickness absence is mainly transmitted through health-related outcomes and work effort.
大多数在中国城市工作的员工都经历着沉重的通勤负担，这已成为新城市化战略进程中亟待解决的问题。然而，在中国，通勤时间与缺勤之间的关系仍鲜有探索，也没有直接的讨论来分析通勤时间与缺勤之间的联系机制。本文使用 2013 年中国雇主-雇员匹配调查的独特数据集，采用两级随机截距泊松模型来探讨这种关联。较长的通勤时间与缺勤增加显著相关。较长的通勤时间与较差的自我健康状况和更高程度的心理抑郁有关，也与睡眠时间减少高度相关。此外，通勤时间的增加与工作努力（工作时间）的减少有关。较长的通勤时间通过增加缺勤导致生产力下降，而通勤时间和缺勤之间的潜在联系主要通过与健康相关的结果和工作努力来传递。
