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Risk-attitudes and Socio-economic Characteristics of Economic Migrants: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Interstate Migration

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2014-04-30

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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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In order to estimate individuals' risk-attitudes of economic migrants a static one-period decision model is developed and applied to U.S. interstate migration data. Risk-attitudes are estimated by non-linaer optimiziation. It turns out that economic migrants are significantly risk-averse in taking economic migration decisions. A statistically significant relation of risk-attitudes and socio-economic characteristics like gender, age, and education can only be found for certain specifications of the model.

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Created: 2014Issued: 2014-04-30Updated: 2014-04-30
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17192/z2014.0333
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Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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eng
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DoctoralThesis
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migration
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Migration
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330
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https://open.uni-marburg.de/handle/10.17192/z2014.0333
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Koch, Sophia (1051975913): Risk-attitudes and Socio-economic Characteristics of Economic Migrants: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Interstate Migration. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014-04-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2014.0333.

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