本論文主要使用深度訪談的質性資料，探討高屏地區25位失業勞工的失業與再就業經驗。整體而言，本研究結果發現有五：第一、失業勞工傾向於以外部歸因來解釋其失業的事實。第二、受限年齡、技術及心理障礙等，難以重返核心勞動市場是大多數失業勞工的共同遭遇。第三、經濟壓力對於失業者再就業時的生涯選擇，具有關鍵性的影響力。第四，根據失業勞工尋求再就業機會的經歷，可歸納出「積極創新型的求職者」、「時不我與型的求職者」、「邊陲受榨型的求職者」、「孤立無望型的求職者」四大求職者類型。

This article uses the qualitative materials derived from in-depth interviews of 25 unemployed workers located in Kaohsiung and Pingtong areas to deal with the issue of under-employment and re-employment of middle-aged job seekers. It reaches the following five sets of conclusion. First, unemployed workers usually attributed their unemployment to external factors. Second, constrained by age, skill and psychological barriers, unemployed workers found it extremely difficult to return to the labor markets. Third, economic pressure stood out as the critical factor to push the employed workers to take under-paid jobs. Fourth, based on the re-employment experiences, four types of unemployed workers can be found： innovative job-seekers, anachronistic job seekers, hopeless job seekers and exploited-marginalized job seekers.