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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272279
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272328
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006
attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation. -- risk attitudes ; ethnicity ; native-migrant differences … ; gender differences ; second-generation effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289886
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Intergenerational returns to migration? : comparing educational performance on both sides of the German border
Luthra, Renee - 2010
This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702309
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Intergenerational returns to migration? Comparing educational performance on both sides of the German border
Luthra, Renee Reichl - 2010
This paper compares the educational performance of the children of immigrants to the children in their parents' home countries. I utilize the 2003 and 2006 PISA internationally standardized test scores for Italian, Polish, Turkish, former Yugoslavian, and former Soviet origin youth attending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288921
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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The Effect of Communism on People's Attitudes Toward Immigration
Carl, Matthew - 2018
Does living in a communist regime make a person more concerned about immigration? This paper argues conceptually and demonstrates empirically that people’s attitudes toward immigration are affected by their country's politico-economic legacy. Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111554
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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
Büchel, Felix; Frick, Joachim R. - 2021
Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319899
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2005
-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not … working), and the choice between full-time paid work and self-employment. The choices are determined by the reservation wage … for full-time work, and the perceived earnings from working in paid-employment and as entrepreneur, among other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003238617