Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

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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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• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 560

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: Risk attitudes ; ethnicity ; native-migrant differences ; gender differences ; second-generation effects ; Risikopräferenz ; Migranten ; Ureinwohner ; Vergleich ; Generationenbeziehungen ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bonin, Holger ; Constant, Amelie F. ; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2006

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18453