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

Adriana Barone and Cristian Barra

Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, 2022, vol. 130, issue 4, 323-362

Abstract: 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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C50 I10 I18 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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