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.

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Year of publication:	2006-03
Authors:	Bonin, Holger ; Constant, Amelie ; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos ; Zimmermann, Klaus F
Institutions:	C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
Subject:	ethnicity \| gender differences \| native-migrant differences \| risk attitudes \| second-generation effects

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CEPR Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 5587
Classification:	D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ; D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty ; F22 - International Migration ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races ; J16 - Economics of Gender ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J62 - Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility ; J82 - Labor Force Composition
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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