Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/105130 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5072
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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.
Subjects: 
immigration policy
EU policy
tradable quotas
refugee resettlement
asylum seekers
international public goods
JEL: 
F22
F50
H87
I30
K33
O19
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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