Journal article
The Immigrant-Native Gap in Subjective Well-Being in Western European Countries: Assessing the Role of Social Capital
The International migration review, Vol.53(2), pp.458-485
06/01/2019
DOI: 10.1177/0197918318769309
Abstract
Immigrants in Western Europe typically exhibit lower levels of subjective well-being than their native-born counterparts. We argue that because of disruptions in social networks and linguistic and cultural barriers to immigrant integration, social capital is a likely source of immigrant-native inequality in well-being. Using data from the first five waves of the European Social Survey, we find that social capital, measured by several indicators of informal social connections and generalized trust, explains more than half of the non-Western immigrant-native gap in subjective well-being that remains after adjusting for the standard predictors of well-being. Social capital also significantly reduces the smaller Western immigrant-native gap. In addition, we examine potential differential returns to social capital and find that immigrants and natives benefit equally from social capital.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Immigrant-Native Gap in Subjective Well-Being in Western European Countries: Assessing the Role of Social Capital
- Creators
- Mesay A. Tegegne - University of South FloridaJennifer L. Glanville - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The International migration review, Vol.53(2), pp.458-485
- Publisher
- Sage
- DOI
- 10.1177/0197918318769309
- ISSN
- 0197-9183
- eISSN
- 1747-7379
- Number of pages
- 28
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306245102771
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