Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
By Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann. Social Science Research Network, 2006
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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.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8ab1e15f8f7d3be647fdc57751ef0d5de5015317
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