Do Institutions or Culture Determine the Level of Social Trust? The Natural Experiment of Migration from Non-western to Western Countries
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Do institutions or culture determine levels of social trust in society? If quality of institutions determines levels of social trust, migrants from countries with lower-quality institutions should enhance their level of social trust in countries with higher-quality institutions. If, on the other hand, the migrants' level of social trust is determined by their culture, it should not be affected by a different institutional setting. Furthermore, culturally diverse immigrant groups should have different levels of social trust in the same host country. Analysing migration from several non-western countries to Denmark, this paper demonstrates that institutions rather than culture matter for social trust.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 4 |
Pages (from-to) | 544-565 |
ISSN | 1369-183X |
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Publication status | Published - 2014 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - Social Trust, Culture, Institutions, Migration
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