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To investigate the nature and implications of the social segregation of the long term unemployed.

Main Topics:

The patterning of inter-household resource networks and their relationship to socio-economic circumstances and employment status; the interaction of household structure and employment circumstances; the structure and explaination of married couples' joint pattern of labour force participation; divisions of household labour and domestic responsibilities.

Initial random sample within given criteria and additional random sample to boost sample of respondents in particular labour force circumstances (i.e. of long term unemployment, and of recent recruitment).

Face-to-face interview