Study title

Employment and unemployment in the course of time. Problems of reintegration in work and contact with the employment office. Psycho-social problems of unemployment. This is a four-wave panel. Topics: 1st wave: The first wave of this investigation is at the same time the survey described under ZA Study No. 1083. 2nd wave: current employment status and changes since last survey; detailed chronological recording of times of employment or unemployment since last survey; agency arranging and frequency of temporary employment; re-employment with the same employer; type of activity during this interruption; employment from funds of a job creation measure; participation in course or retraining; successful conclusion and financial support of the course; improvement in occupational chances through retraining participation; reasons for non-participation (scale); self-assessment of current condition of health; illnesses and complaints; utilization of advice centers and medical treatment; psychological self-characterization of self-confidence and work orientation (scales); judgement on economic situation of the Federal Republic and one´s own economic situation; characterization of activity sought; income ideas; ideas about distance to place of work; list of circumstances that would be accepted in order to find work; type and extent of support received; intensity and evaluation of contact with the employment office; judgement on the case worker in the employment office in general and relative to the case of respondent (scale); number of jobs offered by the employment office; experiences with job offers obtained by the employment office as already filled or rejections received; independent search for work; number of applications; conversations with job counselor and case worker about further education and retraining; content characterization of counseling conversations (scale); attitude to unemployment and search for work (scale); detailed characterization of last...