WHIP allows exhaustive empirical analysis about labour economics and industrial economics, and in particular about themes concerning employment and labour mobility, wages, dynamics and firm demography – themes which can usefully interact. Here is a brief list of basic themes for which WHIP could be a source of information:

• studies concerning flexibility of the labour market and worker mobility;
• wage distribution, inequalities and wage mobility;
• evaluation analysis of active labour policies like apprenticeships or training and work contracts (CFL);
• studies about the diffusion and impact of new kinds of contracts like temporary work or “lavoro interinale”;
• labour and retirement choices of the elderly;
• creation and destruction of job positions and firm birth and death;

Given the longitudinal nature of the sample, and the quantity of different observable events in the working careers of individuals, in general, exhaustive analysis of the duration and transition among events are possible.