ABSTRACT
Subjectively, unemployed respondents, as well as those who had found work after a period of unemployment, connected their job losses with the problems faced by their sector or their enterprise, and in the final analysis with the reforms currently under way in. The distribution of workers across sectors, forms of ownership and size of workforce at enterprises shows that the main flow of recruitment in 1997 was towards large joint-stock enterprises. Analysis of the degree of correlation between employment status and the responses to all the questions on both phase questionnaires, indicated that there were two variables out of several hundreds analysed which were very significant. Overall, people who valued the significance of good pay highly were also far from indifferent to the conditions in which they had to work, at the same time scorning those labour values which presupposed high dedication to work, initiative and responsibility.
