Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas: a Policy Proposal to Reform the EU Asylum Policy

Hillel Rapoport () and Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

No 2014/101, RSCAS Working Papers from European University Institute

Abstract: he current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards addressing the shortcomings of the existing system. We illustrate this claim using the recent problems regarding relocation faced by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in Malta.

Keywords: Immigration policy; EU policy; tradable quotas; refugee resettlement; asylum seekers; international public goods. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F5 H87 I3 K33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-10
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