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

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 e...

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Main Author: Koch, Sophia
Contributors: Nietert, Bernhard ( Prof. Dr. ) (Thesis advisor)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014
Subjects:
Migration
Wirtschaft
migration
Economics
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Call Number: urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-z2014-03331
Publication Date: 2014-04-30
Date of Acceptance: 2014-02-12
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Access URL: https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/diss/z2014/0333
https://doi.org/10.17192/z2014.0333

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