The Evaluation of Programs to assist young Unemployed in Post Communist East-Central Europe 1996-1998

The match between the situations of young unemployed and the
assistance offered to them by state agencies and non-governmental
organizations (NGO).
Topics: Family background; nationality status and religious
affiliation; parents´professional status before and after 1989;
occupational status of siblings; marital status; number and age of
children and type of household; educational background; years spent into
full-time education; type of school and specialty; involvement into
post-compulsory education; plans for employment status while at school
and source of career advice; sequence between education and past and
present career aims; working careers since leaving school; number and
types of jobs held; economic sector of the jobs and months they were
held; why and how each job ended; experience of registered and
unregistered unemployment; length of joblessness; amount of unemployment
benefits; advantages and disadvantages of being jobless; involvement
into the second economy; types of jobs and amount of informal earnings;
strategies applied in the job search; degree of determination to find a
job; work preferences; sources of assistance; forms of family support;
forms of help received from friends, state labor offices and
non-governmental organizations; main source of assistance during
unemployment; expectations about the future; optimism or pessimism about
own job status and financial situation in ten years; wishes for the
future job status of own children; membership in occupational /
industrial, political, recreational and religious organizations; number
of holidays spent away from home in the past year; number of restaurants
visits in the past four weeks; church attendance in the past four weeks;
use of motor car, satellite or cable TV, PC and mobile phone; time for
oneself, for family and friends; favorite activities during the day;
requests for clubs, meeting spaces and recreation facilities; counseling
and money during unemployment; socio-political attitudes; views about
gender roles; quality of family life during the past and present regime;
political preferences; advantages and disadvantages of market economy;
desired model for own country´s development; foreign policy
orientations; plans to vote in the next election; opinions about
national and local politicians; trade unions and the church; evaluation
of state and NGO programs available to young people in the labor market;
scope of activities and target groups; organizational structure;
personnel; budget of the NGO; history of the organization and plans for
development; barriers for development; partners; professional career of
the leaders; their perceptions of young people and youth problems.