Study title

Economic crisis. Globalisation. National and European employment and social policies. Discrimination. Development aid. Public transport services. Topics: 1. General life satisfaction; assessment of the present situation and expectations for the next twelve months regarding life in general, the place of residence, the healthcare system and the pension system in the own country, unemployment benefits, cost of living, relations between people of different national and religious backgrounds in the own country, social inequality and poverty, energy costs, housing costs, public administration, economic situation of the own country, the national labour market situation, the personal job situation, and the financial situation of the own household; comparison of these issues with five years ago. 2. Economic crisis: own unemployment or in the social environment due to the economic crisis; feared personal unemployment or in the social environment (partner, colleague, child); expected impact of the crisis on the labour market situation. 3. Globalisation: knowledge of the European Globalisation adjustment Fund to assist victims of globalisation. 4. National and European employment and social policies: knowledge of the European Social Fund (ESF), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the Erasmus Programme, and the ´Lisbon Strategy´; assessment of the proportion of the EU budget used for financing the European Social Fund; frequency of occupational and job change over the life course of the respondent; duration of the current or the last employment; most important skills to find a job; assessment of the safety of the own job in the next few months, and in two years; participation in training courses within the last twelve months; funding of the training; own education to date is sufficient, or further training is needed to keep the job; reasons that prevent from participating in training courses; likelihood to find a new job within six months (scale); kind of...