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:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Risikopräferenz \| Indigene Völker \| Vergleich \| Generationenbeziehungen \| Deutschland \| Migranten \| risk attitudes \| ethnicity \| native-migrant differences \| gender differences \| second-generation effects

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 1999
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	508947545 [GVK] hdl:10419/33634 [Handle]
Classification:	D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ; D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; F22 - International Migration ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; J82 - Labor Force Composition
Source:	EconStor

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