The Course of Unemployment and Reemployment since 1990, 3rd Wave of the Panel on the Course of Employment 1994

Analysis of the course of structures of hiring,
values and conduct in connection with changes in the employment status
of the respondent.
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);
concern regarding the economic development, one's own economic situation,
the environment, peace, the influx of applicants for political asylum,
the growing together of east and west, crime, European unification;
trust in parties regarding the fight against unemployment;
interest in politics;
general life feeling (scale);
reasons to go to work;
financial situation;
financial reserves;
utilization of welfare and feelings with 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;
goals in life;
party membership;
party sympathy;
general contentment with life;
responsible employment office;
number of persons in household of working age;
composition of household income;
content of occupation;
part-time work;
utilization of unpaid vacation;
prospects for the future;
help in life;
Sunday question;
unemployment, ABM {job-creation measure}, retraining/further education,
early retirement/pension, second occupation,
short time work in the last 12 months.
Supplemental form for unemployed:
frequency and length 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 support through partner;
importance of finding a new job rapidly.
Supplemental questions for reemployed:
time of reemployment;
length and frequency of unemployment;
status of current employment;
comparison of occupation with that before the turning point;
safety of job;
place of work;
the route to work.
Supplemental form for partners:
importance of selected areas of life such as job, residence, democracy,
environment, leisure time, family, friends, income, religion, social security;
employment status;
safety of job;
occupational training degrees;
satisfaction with selected areas of life;
financial security;
unemployment of partner;
evaluation of prospects of a new job for partner;
support for partner in dealing with the situation as unemployed;
hopes and fears;
interest in politics;
goals to be sought in politics (scale);
primary cause for unemployment;
party sympathy;
goals in life;
change of family atmosphere and reasons for this;
Sunday question;
unemployment, ABM {job-creation measure}, retraining / further education,
early retirement/pension, second occupation,
short time work in the last 12 months;
general contentment with life.