Are workers with a long commute less productive? An empirical analysis of absenteeism

By J. V. van Ommeren, Eva Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau. 2011

190 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Transportation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/791146e832f292450758df2c9b8bb8e8dcdb7d05

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. C. Berg
2. Karl Hofmeyr
3. Tammy D. Allen
4. M. Weideman
5. Liang Ma
6. Yishen Liu
7. Uwe Deichmann
8. Timothy D. Golden

In Transportation

1. C. Berg
2. Karl Hofmeyr
3. Tammy D. Allen
4. M. Weideman
5. Liang Ma
6. Yishen Liu
7. Uwe Deichmann
8. Timothy D. Golden

Citations in the corpus

• Transport Policies and Development (2015, background): “Improved transport can also lead firms to be more productive as better roads can stimulate more intense vehicle use (Fernald, 1999) or reduce absenteeism (Van Ommeren & Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, 2011).”
• Wages and commuting: quasi-natural experiments' evidence from firms that relocate (2014, unknown): “Van Ommeren and Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau (2011) show that absenteeism, which might be interpreted as a form of shirking, increases with commuting distance.”
• Does daily commuting behavior matter to employee productivity? (2019, methodology): “Following Van Ommeren and Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau (2011), we also used the natural logarithm of commuting distance and commuting time in the models as we found this specification improved model fit.”
• How Effective Is Telecommuting? Assessing the Status of Our Scientific Findings (2015, background): “Van Ommeren and Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau (2011) estimated that absenteeism in a German sample would be reduced by 15% to 20% if commute distance were negligible (as it is when telecommuting), although VandenHeuvel and Wooden (1995) found that the relationship between commute time and absenteeism was…”
• The influence of flexible work arrangements on employee engagement: An exploratory study (2020, result): “This view is supported by the literature which states that commute times are found to result in stress (Zhou et al., 2017) and absenteeism (Van Ommeren & Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, 2011).”