Discussion Papers 560, 9 S.
Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
2006. Feb.
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Published in: Applied Economics Letters 16 (2009) Iss. 15, 1581-1586
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.
Topics: Firms, Migration, Labor and employment
JEL-Classification: D1;D8;F22;J15;J16;J3;J62;J82
Keywords: Risk attitudes, Ethnicity, Native-migrant differences, Gender differences, Secondgeneration effects
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http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18453