TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schmillen, Achim
AU  - Möller, Joachim
        TI  - Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
        PY  - 2010/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4751
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4751
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - occupation-specific human capital
KW  - censored quantile regressions
KW  - lifetime unemployment
        ER  -