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.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Vol/bind | 40 |
Udgave nummer | 4 |
Sider (fra-til) | 544-565 |
ISSN | 1369-183X |
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Status | Udgivet - 2014 |
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