Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport ()

No 5072, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The 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 current system. We illustrate this claim using the recent problems regarding relocation faced by the European Relocation from Malta (EUREMA) program.

Keywords: immigration policy; EU policy; tradable quotas; refugee resettlement; asylum seekers; international public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F50 H87 I30 K33 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Journal Article: Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy (2015)
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Working Paper: Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy (2015)
Working Paper: Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy (2015)
Working Paper: Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy (2014)
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