Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/326814 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
UNU-MERIT Working Papers No. 2022-005
Publisher: 
United Nations University (UNU), Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht
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.
Subjects: 
Globalisation
Social Cohesion
Institutional Trust
Interpersonal trust
Diversity
Inequality
Government Expenditure
Government Intervention
JEL: 
F15
F68
D31
D78
E61
H5
O24
O52
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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