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 tak...

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Huvudupphovsman: Koch, Sophia
Övriga upphovsmän: Nietert, Bernhard ( Prof. Dr. ) (BetreuerIn (Doktorarbeit))
Materialtyp: Dissertation
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2014
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