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:	Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Other Persons:	Bonin, Holger (contributor) ; Constant, Amelie (contributor) ; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor)
Publisher:	[2006]: [S.l.] : SSRN

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (12 p)
Series:	IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 1999
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 2006 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.889061 [DOI]
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:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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