Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes

Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann

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Abstract

This article 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. 
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1581-1586
Number of pages6
JournalApplied Economics Letters
Volume16
Issue number15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2009
Externally publishedYes

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