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

Analysis of the course of hiring, value and conduct structures
in connection with changes in employment status of respondents.
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.
Supplemental form for partners.