Study title

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...