Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Julie Moschion () and Domenico Tabasso

No 7203, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the cultural background from that of the social and economic conditions on individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in both host countries, but particularly so in the United States. Social and economic conditions in the host country, such as crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first generation immigrants confirms that the transmission of trust across generations is primarily important in the United States, and, that differences in trust levels between the two host countries increase with acculturation.

Keywords: migration; culture; trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 O15 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2013-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-mig and nep-soc
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Published - published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3 (10)

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Journal Article: Trust of second-generation immigrants: intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation? (2014)
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