Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Holger Bonin (), Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus Zimmermann ()

No 560, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Risk attitudes; Ethnicity; Native-migrant differences; Gender differences; Secondgeneration effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D8 F22 J15 J16 J3 J62 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 p.
Date: 2006
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