Arbeitspapier
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1999
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
International Migration
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition
- Thema
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risk attitudes
ethnicity
native-migrant differences
gender differences
second-generation effects
Risikopräferenz
Indigene Völker
Vergleich
Generationenbeziehungen
Deutschland
Migranten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bonin, Holger
Constant, Amelie F.
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
Zimmermann, Klaus F.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bonin, Holger
- Constant, Amelie F.
- Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
- Zimmermann, Klaus F.
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2006