WHIP is the Work Histories Italian Panel developed at LABORatorio Riccardo Revelli.

The on-line version can be accessed at the address indicated below. The extended version of the bank is available to students, researchers and faculty on site at the Collegio (contact databanks@carloalberto.org).

http://www.laboratoriorevelli.it/whip

WHIP is a database of individual work histories, based on Inps administrative archives.
The reference population is made up of 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.
The observed period goes from 1985 to 2004.