Im Jahre 1992 begann das auf sechs Jahre angelegte Schwerpunktprogramm "Sozialer und politischer Wandel der DDR-Gesellschaft" der DFG. Damit sollte der mit der deutschen Einigung zu erwartende Transformationsprozeß durch verschiedene sozialwissenschaftliche Disziplinen begleitend untersucht...

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.

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...