Unemployment and Re-employment in the Course of Time after 1990 (1st Wave of the Course of Employment Panel)

Coping with unemployment and re-employment in the context of family and partner situation. Topics: Importance of selected areas of life such as work, family, friends, income, housing, occupation, politics, leisure time, religion, travel, environment, social security, sexuality; need for qualification in order to be successful in the job market; financing voluntary further education; benefit of further education; satisfaction with selected areas of life before the "turning point" (scale); current satisfaction (scale); hopes and fears; importance of a higher standard of living, co-determination, economic growth, differences in income, community spirit, public supervision, affluence thinking, the struggle against environmental pollution, technical progress, fight against unemployment, tolerance in contact with others, public safety; general attitude to life; reasons to go to work; current financial situation; possibilities to face unemployment; primary causes for unemployment; change of relation to partner, children and parents in recent time and reasons for this; future plans, prospects for the future and activities in the areas occupation, family, leisure time, personal development, political and social activities, standard of living; party sympathies; general contentment with life; number and ages of children in household; employment of members of household; composition of household income; employment, ABM {work program}, retraining, short time work and unemployment in the last 12 months.

Supplemental form for employed: frequency and length of earlier unemployment; terms of employment; working hours; job security; place of work; the route to work; changes of the route to work in recent time. Supplemental form for unemployed: frequency and length of unemployment; type of dissolution of earlier employment; time expended on search for work; number of applications; reasons for non-reemployment up to now; job possibilities in other regions; prospects of finding a suitable position; preferred way to search for work; offers of the employment office; conditions for acceptance of a new job; psycho-social condition since unemployment; speaking about unemployment; support of partner in dealing with the situation; reasons to go to work; importance of rapidly finding work; participation in retraining; length of education measure; receipt of support.