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Author-Name: Verhoeven, Loesje
Author-Email: verhoeven@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Author-Name: Ritzen, Jo
Author-Email: ritzen@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Title: Globalisation increased trust in northern and western Europe between 2002 and 2018
Abstract: Institutional trust and interpersonal trust are supposedly threatened by
	 globalisation. In a case study of twelve countries in Northern- and
	 Western Europe, however, we show that the substantial globalisation of
	 the first two decades of the 21st century has contributed to
	 institutional trust and - less significant - to interpersonal trust.
	 This relation is non-linear. The "usual suspects" of income inequality
	 and diversity have decreased institutional and interpersonal trust. Only
	 specific Government expenditures (education and culture) have
	 contributed to trust, more so in combination with high quality of
	 institutions. High trusting countries (compared to Austria) turn out to
	 be: France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. The positive effect
	 of globalization on trust is "carried" by the higher educated and those
	 with higher incomes.
Classification-JEL: F15, F68, D31, D78, E61, H5, O24, O52
Keywords: Globalisation, Social Cohesion, Institutional Trust, Interpersonal trust,
	 Diversity, Inequality, Government Expenditure, Government Intervention
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 20220201
Number: 2022-005
File-URL: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/wppdf/2022/wp2022-005.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2022005