IZA Journal of Migration
Volume 3, Issue 1, 2014

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

Moschion J.* , Tabasso D.
  • a Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne, 1-100 Grattan Street, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia, Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre, NanterreCedex, 92001, France
  • b Université de Genève, Uni Mail, 40, bd du Pont-d’Arve, Genève 4, 1211, Switzerland, NCCR LIVES, Genève, Switzerland, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, 53113, Germany

Abstract

This paper studies the respective influences 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 country and in the host country to separate the effect of cultural transmission 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 of the host countries, and marginally more in the United States. Social and economic conditions in the host country also affect individual trust. JEL classification: J15, O15, Z10 © 2014, Moschion and Tabasso; licensee Springer.

Author Keywords

Trust Migration culture

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84983268487&doi=10.1186%2f2193-9039-3-10&partnerID=40&md5=c5c6d3fb75ff1a50afaa35d2309e34bf
DOI: 10.1186/2193-9039-3-10
ISSN: 21939039
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English