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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331886
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272287
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683314
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963624
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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761965
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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie F. - 2009
a slew of individual and labor market characteristics, ethnic identity does not significantly affect the earnings of men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158071
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Sexual orientation, gender identity and labour market outcomes : new patterns and insights
Drydakis, Nick; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
The paper initiates a research agenda to study new developments of the effects of sexual orientation and gender … on quantitative empirical studies and compare findings along a variety of topics such as, earnings patterns, occupational … family support all along the sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Contrary to the earlier literature, the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262147
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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
a slew of individual and labor market characteristics, ethnic identity does not significantly affect the earnings of men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202411
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 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/10010272279
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 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/10010272328