Understanding Immigrant-Native Differences in Financial Market Participation

Una Okonkwo Osili and Anna Paulson

No 2007-WP-19, NFI Working Papers from Indiana State University, Scott College of Business, Networks Financial Institute

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to investigate access to financial services and prospects for the wealth assimilation of immigrants by studying the financial market behavior of U.S. immigrants, compared to the native-born. Compared to similar natives, immigrants are less likely to own a wide range of financial assets, including savings and checking accounts. We find that lower rates of financial market participation tend to persist even for immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for several years. Our results suggest that a large share of the immigrant-native gap in financial market participation is driven by group differences in education, income, and geographic location. For a given immigrant, the likelihood of financial market participation decreases with higher levels of ethnic concentration in the metropolitan area.

Keywords: Immigrants; financial markets; ethnic concentration; location (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2007-08
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