Migration, family history and pension: the second release of the SHARE Job Episodes Panel

Abstract

Data about working life histories collected in the third wave of the SHARE survey, called SHARELIFE, were organized into a retrospective panel as described in Brugiavini, Cavapozzi, Pasini, Trevisan (2013). We now enrich such a publicly available dataset adding information on migration histories, fertility histories and marriage/cohabitation histories. Based on this information, we are able to link individual data to institutional features of pensions systems SHARE respondents were exposed to in each year of their working life. We add to the retrospective panel nine variables accounting for statutory retirement age, early retirement age and benefit reduction, contribution rate by the employer and the employee during working life, minimum and maximum pension benefit entitlements