Unemployment, Trust in Government, and Satisfaction with Democracy: An Empirical Investigation

Bauer, Paul C.

doi:10.1177/2378023117750533

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“…Occupations below higher white-collar level, difficulty with income, exposure to bouts of unemployment and discrimination were associated with lower mean levels of generalised trust, trust in political institutions and satisfaction with democracy. However, this association between labour market experiences and levels of generalised trust, political attitudes and satisfaction with democracy (Bauer, 2018) was only significant for natives. There was a relatively consistent pattern with variance in labour market factors significantly associated with trust in politics and satisfaction with democracy for natives but having no significant impact for first or second-generation immigrants.…”

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The role of labour market experiences in the social and political integration of first and second-generation Non-Western and Eastern European immigrants in Ireland

Turner

Cross

2020

The Irish Journal of Management

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The increase in the number of immigrants in Europe in recent decades has been accompanied by a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment and a growth in support for far-right political parties in Europe. A key element for ant-immigrant sentiment is the assumed lack of attachment and commitment of immigrants to the institutions, values and national identity of the host country. While a considerable body of studies have focused on the political and social assimilation of immigrants into European countries, the possible influence of Irish labour market experiences of first and second generation immigrants from non-western countries and Eastern European countries remains an under-researched area in th e literature. Combining five waves of the European Social Survey we test the proposition that the labour market experiences of first and second-generation immigrants from non-western countries and Eastern European countries are a factor affecting the extent of political and social assimilation into the host country. Our findings indicate that first-generation immigrants’ attachment to the political institutions of the host country are likely influenced more by a comparison with conditions in their country of origin rather than how they fare in labour market of the host country.

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The role of labour market experiences in the social and political integration of first and second-generation Non-Western and Eastern European immigrants in Ireland

Turner

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2020

The Irish Journal of Management

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“…Our findings are mostly in line with some of the previous findings in the literature. For instance, the relevancy of government efforts to cope with the harmful effects of unemployment and implement various policies to support reinsertion in the labour market was highlighted by Bauer (2018), while fighting against unemployment's adverse effects is one of the governments' most important objectives. Based on the investigation of 27 European Union countries and using Eurobarometer data, Roth et al (2011) argued that an increase in unemployment is linked to declining trust in governmental institutions.…”

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Granger Causal Nexus between Good Public Governance and Unemployment: Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data Investigation

Boţa-Avram

Groşanu

Răchişan

et al. 2021

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causality between good public governance captured through six World Bank governance indicators and unemployment rate (unemployment as % of the total labour force) as a clear indicator of labour market performance. Although some previous papers have empirically demonstrated the casual nexus between country-level governance and economic development, this study investigates the relation of causality between public governance and the labour market. By employing Granger non-causality tests, we tested two hypotheses with regard to this nexus. We argue that bidirectional Granger causality is predominant for the relation of country-level governance and unemployment. Finally, our paper offers a complex quantitative analysis of the causal nexus between public governance quality and one of the most known labour market activity indicators for an extended panel dataset of countries worldwide for 10 years.

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“…High unemployment increases labor market insecurity for all employees, which has a negative effect on political trust (Wroe, 2014). High unemployment also has direct negative consequences for the most affected individuals who lose or are unable to secure good jobs, which reduces life satisfaction and self-esteem, and is associated with negative perceptions of the political system blamed for the individual's misfortunes (Bauer, 2018). Figure 1 presents the trends in unemployment, political trust, and the democracy indicators.…”

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Political trust as a cause and consequence of democracy: Longitudinal analysis of European data

Kołczyńska¹,

Bürkner²

2021

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The causal link between political trust and democratic performance has been assumed rather than established. Building on research on political trust as related to regime legitimacy and on the evaluative nature of political trust, we formulate hypotheses about the effect of political trust on democracy and of democracy on political trust, both with regard to overall levels of trust in societies, as well as trust by education and age groups. We test these hypotheses with cross-lagged models applied to country time series of political trust from 26 European countries between 1991 and 2019, and with two democracy indicators, from the Varieties of Democracy and the Democracy Barometer projects. We find evidence of effects of democracy on trust and vice versa, as well as of differences in the effects of democracy on political trust among different education and age groups. The results are sensitive to the choice of the democracy indicator as well as the lag length, which points to the need of examining different reasonable combinations of indicators and nags in this kind of analysis.

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Unemployment, Trust in Government, and Satisfaction with Democracy: An Empirical Investigation

Cited by 25 publications

References 65 publications

The role of labour market experiences in the social and political integration of first and second-generation Non-Western and Eastern European immigrants in Ireland

The role of labour market experiences in the social and political integration of first and second-generation Non-Western and Eastern European immigrants in Ireland

Granger Causal Nexus between Good Public Governance and Unemployment: Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data Investigation

Political trust as a cause and consequence of democracy: Longitudinal analysis of European data

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