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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:BOFIT Seminar - Weizheng Lai (Trinity College Dublin) - Migrant Integration and Social Stability =0D=0A Abstract Societies around the world grapple with how to design policies regarding migrant integration, amid concerns surrounding these policies' impacts on social stability. This paper examines the causal link between migrant integration policy and social stability. We analyze the effect of China's 2014 reform of its internal migration system on migrant labor unrest (e.g., strikes and protests), exploiting variation from a discontinuity in the reform eligibility. We find that by relaxing restrictions on migrants' ability to access full rights in host societies, the reform reduced labor unrest. We show that the reform increased migrants' intentions to settle in their destinations, which weakened their incentives to engage in labor unrest that could undermine their chances of staying due to employer or government retaliation. We develop a novel causal mediation analysis and show that settlement intentions can explain 26--63 percent of the reform's effect on labor unrest. There is no evidence that the reform altered migrant composition, improved migrants' well-being, or prompted governments to tighten social control. Our findings highlight the role of migrants' endogenous responses to migration regimes in shaping the social impacts of migration. =0D=0A Online BOFIT seminars are open to all researchers interested in the subjects covered. The seminar will be recorded and the recording will be shared only with registered participants. Those wishing to attend a seminar are kindly asked to register in advance, by filling in  the Online Registration Form. =0D=0A The registration for the seminar is open until 9:00 am the day of the seminar. You will receive a link to join the seminar by email at the latest one hour before the seminar is scheduled to begin. =0D=0A  =0D=0A
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SUMMARY:Weizheng Lai (Trinity College Dublin) - Migrant Integration and Social Stability
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