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Lost Job, Lost Trust? On the Effect of Involuntary Job Loss on Trust

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Tim Friehe, Jan Marcus

In: Journal of Economic Psychology 84 (2021), 102369, 9 S.

Abstract

This paper tests the conjecture that involuntary job loss erodes trust. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and considering how trust evolves over a quinquennial time interval, we find that job loss decreases trust by about 9 percent of a standard deviation.



JEL-Classification: J24;J64
Keywords: Trust, Job loss, Unemployment, SOEP
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102369

Frei zugängliche Version: (econstor)
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/268507

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