Trust of second-generation immigrants: intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Table 5 OLS regressions, the effect of host-country characteristics

	3-year moving averages
	1-year lag		13-year lag
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
Trust in the home country	0.568***	0.568***	0.565***	0.571***	0.576***
	(0.125)	(0.125)	(0.125)	(0.125)	(0.125)
Australia X trust in the home country	−0.290*	−0.290*	−0.287*	−0.293*	−0.298*
	(0.158)	(0.158)	(0.158)	(0.158)	(0.158)
Country: 0 = US, 1 = Australia	0.852***	2.965***	1.311***	2.220**	−0.223
	(0.201)	(0.981)	(0.343)	(1.074)	(0.567)
Unemployment rate	−0.001
	(0.0103)
Australia X unemployment rate	−0.041*
	(0.0212)
Segregation index		−1.039
		(1.824)
Australia X segregation index		−1789.7**
		(703.6)
Crime rate			−0.0125
			(0.0102)
Australia X crime rate			−0.191**
			(0.0759)
Gini coefficient				1.291
				(2.383)
Australia X Gini coefficient				−5.004
				(3.222)
Perceived racial inequality					−2.552*
					(1.306)
Australia X perceived racial inequality					2.202*
					(1.320)
R-squared	0.120	0.120	0.120	0.120	0.120
Observations	9,954	9,954	9,954	9,954	9,954

Levels of significance: *: 10% **: 5% ***: 1%.
Sample: second-generation immigrants residing in the United States or in Australia.
Note: standard errors (clustered at the individual level) in parentheses. The additional controls are as in Table 2, column 3.
Source: HILDA 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 and GSS 1978–2010.
Dependent variable: Most people can be trusted (0: No; 1: Yes).