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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963826
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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile … regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school … the two minority groups. We find significant wage gender disparities favoring men across all three surveys in the 1970s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068670
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Too Rich to Do the Dirty Work?: Wealth Effects on the Demand for Good Jobs
Haywood, Luke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Jobs offer different wages and different non-monetary working conditions. This paper investigates how the demand for non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential utility of jobs in a labour market with informational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734431
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Does Gender Affect Investors' Appetite for Risk?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending
Barasinska, Nataliya - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018188
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661284
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Are Women More Credit-Constrained than Men?: Evidence from a Rising Credit Market
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661285
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Are Women More Credit-Constrained than Men?: Evidence from a Rising Credit Market
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128102
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Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128105
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Is the Willingness to Take Financial Risk a Sex-Linked Trait?: Evidence from National Surveys of Household Finance
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128883
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Does Gender Affect Funding Success at the Peer-to-Peer Credit Markets?: Evidence from the Largest German Lending Platform
Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
results show that gender does not affect individual borrower's chances of funding success on this platform, ceteris paribus …. Hence, gender discrimination seems to be a platform-specific phenomenon rather than a common attribute of this innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784837