Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33634 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1999
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
risk attitudes
ethnicity
native-migrant differences
gender differences
second-generation effects
JEL: 
D1
D81
F22
J15
J16
J31
J62
J82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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