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Ziller, Conrad ORCID: 0000-0002-2282-636X and Heizmann, Boris (2020). Economic conditions and native-immigrant asymmetries in generalized social trust. Soc. Sci. Res., 87. SAN DIEGO: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE. ISSN 1096-0317

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Abstract

Previous research suggests that individual-level factors such as socio-economic disadvantage and discrimination account for lower levels of generalized social trust of immigrants when compared to natives. This study examines how individual and contextual economic conditions impact such trust gaps. We argue that-beyond objective economic circumstances-evaluations of economic opportunities matter for immigrants' integration, and for their social trust. Using data from the European Social Survey 2012, 2016, merged with regional economic conditions, results from two-way fixed effects multilevel models show that gaps in social trust are wider in regions where the state of the economy is predominantly evaluated as being prosperous. Additional tests show that, in those regions, immigrants report higher levels of discrimination and lower levels of satisfaction with social life. This study adds the important finding to the literature on social inequality and immigrant integration that favorable economic conditions may, paradoxically, increase nativeimmigrant trust asymmetries.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Ziller, Conrad UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2282-636X UNSPECIFIED Heizmann, Boris UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-342454
DOI:	10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102399
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Sci. Res.
Volume:	87
Date:	2020
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN DIEGO
ISSN:	1096-0317
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language JOB-PERFORMANCE; ASPIRATIONS; DISCRIMINATION; INTEGRATION; DIVERSITY; EDUCATION; NETWORKS; PARADOX; WESTERN; EUROPE Multiple languages Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/34245