@techreport{Ludemann2004Censored,
abstract = {We apply censored quantile regressions to representative German register data with
more than 91,000 observations in order to determine crucial factors that influence the
distribution of unemployment duration in West Germany during the 1980s and 1990s.
We find that the effect of some regressors varies and has different sign depending on
the quantiles of the unemployment duration distribution \textendash{} a violation of the classical
proportional hazard assumption which is very popular in unemployment duration
analysis. We also find that variables reflecting the (un-)employment history of an individual
such as the length of tenure, recall to the same employer in the past, recent
unemployment and the position in the population income distribution before unemployment
have the strongest effects on unemployment duration. We conclude that
work history variables are most suitable in characterizing the job search behavior of an
individual. The macroeconomic environment and the educational degree seem to have
a limited effect only.},
address = {Mannheim},
author = {Elke L\"{u}demann and Ralf A. Wilke and Xuan Zhang},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J64; C24; 330; censored quantile regression; unemployment duration; register data; Arbeitslosigkeit; Dauer; Regression; Sch\"{a}tzung; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
note = {More recent version: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24694},
number = {04-57},
publisher = {Zentrum f\"{u}r Europ\"{a}ische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)},
title = {Censored Quantile Regressions and the Length of Unemployment Periods in West Germany},
type = {ZEW Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24067},
year = {2004}
}
