Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger commitment to the home country preserves it. As risk attitudes are behaviorally relevant, and vary by ethnic origin, our results could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 658

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition ; International Migration ; Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: Risk attitudes ; ethnic persistence ; assimilation ; second generation effects ; gender ; Migranten ; Risikopräferenz ; Soziale Norm ; Ethnische Gruppe ; 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/10419/18551
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