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The aim of this survey was to explore the process of adaptation to the joint inflexibility of housing and labour markets. It was sought to establish at the level of human experience what alternative patterns of adaptation actually involved in terms of occupational flexibility, work journey complexity and underemployment, and cost in terms of income reductions, boredom, annoyance and stress.

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Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions Unbroken chronological record of all the events of the respondents' last working day (from leaving home to leaving work): description of activities, locations, participants, routinization and any annoyances, frustrations or upsets. Description of the ways in which that day differed from the normal working routine. Attitudes to current job and normal take home pay. Unbroken chronological record of the events of a normal working routine in the preceding job (from leaving home to leaving work): description of activities, locations, participants. Attitudes to past job and normal take home pay. Detailed record of the process of transition from that job to the current one, including domestic circumstances, long and short term mobility considerations and search procedures. Comparative evaluation of the two jobs. Background Variables Household members: age, sex, work status. Education, access to car etc., language, nationality.

Quota sample

Face-to-face interview

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