Risk Attitudes and Migration

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To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family members are substantially less risk-averse than stayers. We further provide evidence that individual risk attitudes are unaffected by substantial changes in the environment and that risk tolerance is correlated across generations.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9347

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
• Subject: migration ; risk attitudes ; risk aversion ; China

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Akgüc, Mehtap ; Liu, Xingfei ; Tani, Massimiliano ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/124864
• Last update: 10.09.2025, 12:43 PM CEST