Combining the Retrospective Interviews of Wave 3 and Wave 7: The Third Release of the SHARE Job Episodes Panel

Data about working life histories, migration histories, fertility histories and marriage/cohabitation histories collected in the third wave of the SHARE survey were organised into a retrospective panel as described in Brugiavini, Cavapozzi, Pasini, and Trevisan (2013) and Antonova, Aranda, Pasini, and Trevisan (2014). In wave 7 respondents from the new countries were included in the survey and refresher sample respondents from the “old” countries were administered the retrospective questionnaire for the first time. We now combine all the life histories into a single panel dataset and add a new variable reporting the working/non-working condition each year.