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Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

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Holger Bonin
Amelie Constant
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Klaus F. Zimmermann

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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 behaviourally relevant, and vary by ethnic origin, our results could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants.

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Paper provided by DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research in its series Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin with number 658.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Keywords: Risk attitudes; ethnic persistence; assimilation; second generation effects; gender;

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