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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-25
investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household … aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they … risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. Copyright Batista and Umblijs.; licensee Springer 2014 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949797
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in … significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959623
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area …, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839545
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area …, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744648
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884255
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence From a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255528
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744649
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance?
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2014
How do risk preferences affect migrant remittance behaviour? Examination of this relationship has only begun to be explored. Using a tailored representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland, we find a positive and significant relationship between risk aversion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194333
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance?
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2014
How do risk preferences affect migrant remittance behaviour? Examination of this relationship has only begun to be explored. Using a tailored representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland, we find a positive and significant relationship between risk aversion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011086667
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895131