Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

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

No 1999, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: second-generation effects; risk attitudes; ethnicity; native-migrant differences; gender differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D81 F22 J15 J16 J31 J62 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2006-03
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Published - published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (15), 1581-1586

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Journal Article: Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes (2009)
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