Jobs in the 1980s: Bridging the Gap Between People and Work (Germany: Job Market Policies and the Public)

Topics: The content of this study is identical to the questionnaire described in ZA Study No. 1346. Beyond this the following questions were posed in this investigation: assessment of wage equity for men and women in the Federal Republic; attitude to women´s work; grumpy in the morning; questions on economy and society; expected economic development in the Federal Republic and effects of zero growth; daily watching television; most important things in life; original employment desire at conclusion of school; preference for creation of jobs or environmental improvement; number of sick days and days of vacation in 1981; agreed upon and actual hours worked each week; leisure activities as well as secondary occupational activities with and without payment; more work satisfaction from full-time or secondary occupational activity; comparison of ´modern working world´ with work ´earlier´; assumed reasons for current high unemployment; recommendations for combating unemployment; reasonable demands of unemployed to improve their chances of employment; attitude to becoming self-employed; assessment of personal occupational position as an enviable position; achievement orientation (scale); boredom at work; judgement on achievement morals of the Germans; undeveloped personal capabilities; preference for a job corresponding to abilities or for more income; most important media sources; (to housewives: interest in employment); attitude to completion of work not finished by colleagues (split); judgement on the view of work of young people (scale); estimate of the proportion of those not willing to work among the unemployed; personal contact with unemployed; demand of employment in training occupation; sacrifice of wages for the benefit of increased employment; attitude to a change of occupation; psychological self-characterization; chances for success in the FRG conditional on class or achievement; conducting sport; memberships; religiousness; living together with a partner; length of employment; economic group; company size; fear of personal unemployment; unemployment in the last 5 years and length of unemployment; classification of degree of interest in interview; assessment of length of interview by respondent.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; living together with a partner; religious denomination; religiousness; frequence of attending church; school education; occupational training; area of business of company; company size; income of main earner; household income; number of recipients of income; household size; household composition; respondent is head of household; degree of urbanization; memberships; membership in trade union.