Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/124933 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9418
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across Member States. We draw on previous theoretical work to simulate how a system of tradable refugee-admission quotas coupled with a matching mechanism assigning refugees to their preferred destinations and destinations to their preferred types of refugees would give more flexibility to Member States while respecting refugee rights and preferences.
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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