Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a representative immigrant survey
| Autor: | Janis Umblijs, Catia Batista |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Předmět: |
Entrepreneurship
Sociology and Political Science L26 entrepreneurship risk aversion migration media_common.quotation_subject Immigration J01 jel:J61 jel:F22 jel:J01 jel:L26 ddc:330 Self-employment Sociology Migration Demography media_common J15 Risk aversion Migration Risk Aversion Entrepreneurship Differential item functioning Variation (linguistics) Negative relationship Anthropology Scale (social sciences) jel:J15 J61 Demographic economics F22 |
| Zdroj: | IZA Journal of Migration. 3(1) |
| ISSN: | 2193-9039 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40176-014-0017-4 |
| Popis: | Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to investigate the link between risk aversion and entrepreneurship in migrant communities. Using an original representative household survey of the migrant population in the Greater Dublin Area, we find a significant negative relationship between risk aversion and entrepreneurship. Our results show that the use of vignettes improves the significance of the results, as they simultaneously correct for differential item functioning (where respondents interpret the self-evaluation scale in different ways) between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs, and correct for variation in the use of self-evaluation scales between migrants from different countries of origin. This finding may help explaining the variability in results on the correlation between risk preferences and entrepreneurship reported in previous studies. JEL: F22; J01; J15; J61; L26 |
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