The Course of Unemployment and Reemployment since 1990, 2nd Wave of the Panel on the Course of Employment 1993

Coping with unemployment and reemployment in the context of family and partner situation. Topics: Importance of selected areas of life such as work, residence, democracy, environment, leisure time, family, friends, income, religion, social security; need for qualification; chances in employment life; satisfaction with individual areas of life before the turning point and currently; subjective classification of social class (top-bottom scale) before the turning point and currently; hopes and fears; interest in politics; goals to be sought in politics (scale); general life feeling (scale); reasons to go to work; financial situation; utilization of welfare and feeling about this; possibilities to counter unemployment in the new states; primary causes for unemployment; changes in contacts with friends since the turning point; change in family atmosphere and reasons for this; future plans; prospects for the future; future activities regarding family, occupation, leisure time, personal development, political activity, standard of living; feeling of the future; party sympathy; general contentment with life; number of persons in household of working age; composition of household income; unemployment, ABM {job-creation measure}, retraining/further education, short time work in the last 12 months.

Supplemental form for unemployed: frequency of unemployment; time expended for search for work; number of applications and reasons for rejections; job opportunities in the west; prospects to find a suitable position; most successful path for the search for work; conditions for acceptance of a new job; personal effects of unemployment and attitude of partner to this; importance of finding a new job rapidly. Supplemental questions for those reemployed: time of reemployment; length and frequency of unemployment; status of current employment; comparison of occupation with that of before the turning point; safety of job; place of work; the route to work.