@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4751,
            	author={Schmillen, Achim and Möller, Joachim},
            	title={Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions},
            	year={2010},
	month={Feb},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={4751},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4751},
	abstract={The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span 1975-2004 to investigate individual lifetime unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950-1954. We find that lifetime unemployment is highly unevenly distributed and employ censored quantile regressions to show that, for men, pursuing a disadvantageous occupation early in the professional career leads to a significantly higher amount of lifetime unemployment.},
	keywords={occupation-specific human capital;censored quantile regressions;lifetime unemployment},
            }