Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107486 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8683
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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: 
asylum seekers
refugee resettlement
tradable quotas
EU policy
immigration policy
international public goods
JEL: 
F22
F5
H87
I3
K33
O19
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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