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Changes in Inequality and Generalized Trust in Europe
Olivera Angulo, Javier
2015In Social Indicators Research, 124 (1), p. 21-41
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Keywords :
Trust; Income Inequality; Europe
Abstract :
[en] This paper analyses the determinants of trust in a pool of 34 European countries over the period 2002–2012. We find that income inequality is negatively related with generalized trust when we analyze the pooled data of individuals with multilevel models, confirming a well-established result in the analysis of cross-country differences in trust. However, we are unable to find the same significant relationship when we estimate fixed effects models with a panel dataset composed by countries. It is plausible that unobserved effects may account for the significant and negative relationship between economic inequality and trust at the cross-sectional level. In contrast, in the fixed effects models, we find negative and significant effects of ethnic and linguistic fractionalization, discrimination (general or based on migrant status) and crime rates on trust.
Disciplines :
Social economics
Author, co-author :
Olivera Angulo, Javier ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Integrative Research Unit: Social and Individual Development (INSIDE)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Changes in Inequality and Generalized Trust in Europe
Publication date :
2015
Journal title :
Social Indicators Research
ISSN :
0303-8300
Publisher :
Springer Science & Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, Netherlands
Volume :
124
Issue :
1
Pages :
21-41
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
European Projects :
FP7 - 244592 - GINI - Growing Inequalities' Impacts
Funders :
CE - Commission Européenne [BE]
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