Improving refugee resettlement: insights from market design

Justin Hadad and Alexander Teytelboym

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, vol. 38, issue 3, 434-448

Abstract: The current refugee resettlement system is inefficient because there are too few resettlement places and because refugees are resettled to locations where they might not thrive. We outline how ideas from market design can lead to better resettlement practices. In particular, we discuss how market design can incentivize participation of countries in resettlement and improve the matching of refugees at international and local levels; some of these insights have already put into practice. Finally, we highlight several further applications of market design in refugee resettlement, including cardinal preference submission and matching with transfers.

Keywords: refugee resettlement; matching markets; market design; humanitarian operations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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