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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

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dc.creator Bonin, Holger
dc.creator Constant, Amelie F.
dc.creator Tatsiramos, Konstantinos
dc.creator Zimmermann, Klaus F.
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:00:32Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:00:32Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18551
dc.identifier ppn:523978537
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18551
dc.description The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that adaptation to the attitudes of the majority population closes the immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity, while stronger commitment to the home country preserves it. As risk attitudes are behaviorally relevant, and vary by ethnic origin, our results could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 658
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J31
dc.subject J16
dc.subject J82
dc.subject F22
dc.subject D81
dc.subject D1
dc.subject J62
dc.subject J15
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Risk attitudes
dc.subject ethnic persistence
dc.subject assimilation
dc.subject second generation effects
dc.subject gender
dc.subject Migranten
dc.subject Risikopräferenz
dc.subject Soziale Norm
dc.subject Ethnische Gruppe
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 2004


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