Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Bonin, Holger ; Constant, Amelie ; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Institutions:	DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)
Subject:	Risk attitudes \| Ethnicity \| Native-migrant differences \| Gender differences \| Secondgeneration effects

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin. - ISSN 1619-4535.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Number 560 9 pages long
Classification:	D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ; D8 - Information and Uncertainty ; F22 - International Migration ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; J82 - Labor Force Composition
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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