Abstract:

Based on the investigation of 973 jobless people in three areas of Wuhan， Jingzhou， and Honghu， Hubei province， this paper describes the basic situation of the reemploymentorientated behaviors of the unemployed and analyzes the major factors affecting such behaviors with advanced statistics. The results indicate that the unemployed have a positive attitude toward reemployment but most of them have to take unstable， noncareer jobs with low social prestige or in the selfemployment sector. The unemployed individuals’ social characteristics have a strong effect on their behaviors to secure reemployment， but their desire for reemployment is a nonsignificant factor. The current study does not support the view that overexpectation of reemployment will restrict the reemploymentoriented behaviors of the unemployed.

Key words: the unemployed, reemployment, influencing factors of reemployment