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标题：Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
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作者：Holger Bonin ; Amelie Constant ; Konstantinos Tatsiramos 等
期刊名称：IZA Journal of Migration
电子版ISSN：2193-9039
出版年度：2012
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：1-16
DOI：10.1186/2193-9039-1-5
出版社：Springer Verlag
摘要：This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity.Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in risk proclivity by reducing immigrants’ risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes across immigrants of different origins.Our analysis of the adaptation behavior of immigrants suggests that acquisition of social norms is an essential factor in the formation of individual attitudes.
关键词：Risk attitudes ;Ethnic persistence ;Assimilation ;Second generation effects ;Gender