Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport ()

No 8683, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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: asylum seekers; refugee resettlement; tradable quotas; EU policy; immigration policy; international public goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 F5 H87 I3 K33 O19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2014-11
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Forthcoming - published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), 638-672

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