Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship. Evidence from a representative immigrant survey.

Autor/inn/en	Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship. Evidence from a representative immigrant survey. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Migration, Risikoverhalten und Unternehmertum. Hinweise aus einer repräsentativen Einwanderer-Studie.
Quelle	Bonn (2013), 41 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 7781
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Risikobereitschaft; Selbsteinschätzung; Bildungsabschluss; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Soziales Netzwerk; Unternehmensgründung; Unternehmer; Familienstand; Geschlechtsspezifik; Europäische Union; Afrikaner; Bürger; Selbstständiger; Dublin; Herkunftsland; Irland
Abstract	Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the domain of work to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using a representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. In addition, our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they correct for differential item functioning (where respondents interpret the self-evaluation scale in different ways) between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs, and corrects for variation in the use of self-evaluation scales between migrants from different countries of origin. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/4