Work Histories Italian Panel

WHIP is a database of individual work histories, based on Inps administrative archives. The reference population is made up by all the people – Italian and foreign – who have worked in Italy even only for only a part of their working career. A large representative sample has been extracted from this population: in the standard file the sampling coefficient is about 1: 180, for a dynamic population of about 370,000 people (figures will be doubled in the full edition). For each of these people the main episodes of their working careers are observed. The complete list of observations includes: private employee working contracts, atypical contracts, self-employment activities as artisan, trader and some activities as freelancer, retirement spells, as well as non-working spells in which the individual received social benefits, like unemployment subsidies or mobility benefits. The workers for whom activity is not observed in WHIP are those who worked in the public sector or as freelancers (lawyers or notaries) – who have an autonomous security fund. The WHIP section concerning employee contracts is a Linked Employer Employee Database: in addition to the data about the contract, thanks to a linkage with the Inps Firm Observatory, data concerning the firm in which the worker is employed is also available.

WHIP是一项基于意大利INPS行政档案的个人工作历史数据库。该参考人群由所有曾在意大利工作过，哪怕只是其职业生涯的一部分的意大利籍和外国籍人士组成。从该人群中提取了一个大规模的代表性样本：在标准文件中，抽样系数约为1:180，涉及大约37万人的动态人口（在完整版中，这些数字将翻倍）。对于这些人群中的每一个人，其职业生涯的主要阶段都被进行了观察。完整的观察列表包括：私人雇员劳动合同、非典型合同、作为手工艺人、商贩以及某些自由职业者的自营活动、退休期，以及个人在失业补贴或流动津贴等社会福利中享受的非工作期。在WHIP中未观察到活动的工作者包括在公共部门工作或作为自由职业者（律师或公证人）的人士——他们拥有自主的保障基金。WHIP中关于雇员合同的章节构成了一个关联雇主-雇员数据库：除了合同数据外，得益于与INPS企业观察站的关联，还可以获取到雇员所在企业的数据。