%0 Report
        %A Schmillen, Achim
%A Möller, Joachim
        %T Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
        %D 2010
        %8 2010 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4751
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4751
        %X 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.
        %K occupation-specific human capital
%K censored quantile regressions
%K lifetime unemployment