Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel

Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy

Author(s): Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Issued date: 2015-09-01

Citation: Fernández-Huertas Moraga, J., & Rapoport, H. (2014). Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy. CESifo Economic Studies, 61 (3-4), pp. 638-672.

ISSN: 1610-241X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifu037

xmlui.dri2xhtml.METS-1.0.item-contributor-funder: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)

Sponsor: Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga received financial support from the ECO2008-04785 and ECO2012-39412 projects funded by the Spanish Ministry for Economics and Competitiveness. Hillel Rapoport acknowledges support from the Paris School of Economics \Appel a projets 2013" and from CEPREMAP.

Project: Gobierno de España. ECO2008-04785
Gobierno de España. ECO2012-39412

Keywords: Immigration policy , EU policy , Tradable quotas , Refugee resettlement , Asylum seekers , International public goods

JEL Classification: F5 , H87 , I3 , K33 , 019

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10016/35132

Rights: © The Author 2014

Abstract:

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ine ective 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 propo [+]

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