Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0

Author-Name: Achim Schmillen
Author-X-Name-First: Achim
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmillen

Author-Name: Joachim Möller
Author-X-Name-First: Joachim
Author-X-Name-Last: Möller

Title: Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment. A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
   
	
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 longterm 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.
Length:  29 pages
Creation-Date:  2010-03
File-URL: http://www.bgpe.de/texte/DP/090_schmillen.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2010
Number: 090
Classification-JEL: J64, J24
Keywords: Lifetime unemployment, Censored quantile regressions, Occupation-specific human capital
Handle: RePEc:bav:wpaper:090_schmillen