An investigation into the effects of long-term unemployment of the younger generations in the mid-eighties of the 20th century. What were the effects on both the unemployed themselves and society at large. Which factors determined the unemployed's chances in the labourmarket. This project consisted of two waves, of which the first one, dating from october/november 1984, could not be archived and is also not anymore available in the holdings of IVA and OSA. Only the data of the second wave in 1986 are available, be it that several variables remain undocumented.