Racism and trust in Europe

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I study the impact of racism on trust in Europe. To operationalize trust and racism, I use individual level responses from the European Social and World Value Surveys. The results of the multivariate analysis indicate, individuals who possess a self-reported racist attitude are less likely to be trusting. To address the issue of causality, I examine second generation immigrants. When analyzing immigrants and using the level of racism of their origin country as a proxy for individual racial attitudes, I find, racism continues to predict lower levels of trust. These results provide evidence racism has a negative, significant, and causal impact on generalized trust. Additionally, the paper supports the notion that racism could have negative economic consequences via the erosion of social capital.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: The Constitutional Economics Network Working Papers ; No. 02-2021

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Racism ; Trust ; Culture

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bonick, Matthew
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Freiburg, Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economic Policy and Constitutional Economic Theory
• (wo): Freiburg i. Br.
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/235598
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ