Successes and failures in job hunting: the unemployed in march 1983 seven months lather - Numerous people are looking for jobs: the unemployed, of course, but also working people who have a job but would like something more suitable as well as women who want to work but not in the immediate future. Are these efforts to find a job successful? This question can scarcely be answered by the usual means of observation. This is why a specific survey on the subject was carried out in October, 1983, following the March Job survey. Slightly more than half of those who were unemployed in March, 1983 were still unemployed seven months later. One third had a job, but in one case in four it was temporary or for a limited time. Success in looking for a j...