Employment and Depressive Symptoms in Italy: the Need for Policy Measures

newdigital Employment and Depressive Symptoms in Italy:
the Need for Policy Measures

Article

Magazine

RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI

Fascicle

RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI - 2022 - 4

Title

Employment and Depressive Symptoms in Italy: the Need for Policy Measures

Authors

Adriana Barone, Cristian Barra

Publisher

Vita e Pensiero

Format

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Online from

03-2023

Doi

10.26350/000518_000103

Issn

0035-676X (print) | 1827-7918 (digital)

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Description

This paper investigates depressive symptoms among employees using Italian microdata from the second wave of the European Health Interview Survey. The results show that in Italy, employees with permanent and full-time work suffer less from depressive symptoms than employees without permanent and full-time jobs. Furthermore, females suffer from overall depressive symptoms more than males when taking into account education, income, occupation, or the economic sector in which they work. Finally, there is a stronger positive association between weight status and depressive symptoms in the southern regions of Italy compared to the northern ones. The results suggest the need for economic and social policies in order to reduce differences between employees, genders and regions.

keywords

Employment, Depressive symptoms, Economics of gender

Authors biography

Adriana Barone, Cristian Barra, DISES-Department of Economics and Statistics, CELPE-Centre for Labour Economics and Economic Policy, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084, Fisciano (SA) Italy. Email Barone: abarone@unisa.it. Email Barra: cbarra@unisa.it