Refugee allocation mechanisms: theory and applications for the European Union

Petros Xepapadeas () and Ioannis Mourtos
Additional contact information
Petros Xepapadeas: Athens University of Economics and Business
Ioannis Mourtos: Athens University of Economics and Business

Operational Research, 2022, vol. 22, issue 4, No 41, 4557-4584

Abstract: Abstract We study a relocation problem which consists of allocating a given number of refugees—who are heterogeneous with respect to country of origin and characteristics such as gender, age or educational level—from Greece to other European Union countries which have pledged to accept a certain number of refugees. In order to study this problem, we developed a conceptual framework consisting of three allocation methods: sequential multi-agent resource allocation, simultaneous allocation, and two-stage allocation. In these methods we incorporate preferences by assuming that the destination countries have their own preferences regarding refugee characteristics, but that they also try to consider the refugees’ preferences for the destination countries. While these methods vary in design and execution, all three of them aim to create a more equitable allocation methodology for both the refugees and the destination countries. These methods could also be applied to other similar types of allocation problems.

Keywords: Decision analysis; Refugee allocation mechanisms; Preferences; Greece; European Union; 90-10; 90C05; 90C10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12351-022-00697-y Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:operea:v:22:y:2022:i:4:d:10.1007_s12351-022-00697-y

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.springer ... search/journal/12351

DOI: 10.1007/s12351-022-00697-y

Access Statistics for this article

Operational Research is currently edited by Nikolaos F. Matsatsinis, John Psarras and Constantin Zopounidis

More articles in Operational Research from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().