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 F. ; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Publisher:	Berlin : Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Subject:	Risikopräferenz \| Migranten \| Ureinwohner \| Vergleich \| Generationenbeziehungen \| Deutschland \| Risk attitudes \| ethnicity \| native-migrant differences \| gender differences \| second-generation effects

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Series:	DIW Discussion Papers ; 560
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	510322743 [GVK] hdl:10419/18453 [Handle] RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp560 [RePEc]
Classification:	F22 - International Migration ; D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ; J82 - Labor Force Composition ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility
Source:	EconStor

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