Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga (1) , Hillel Rapoport (2, 3, 4)

1 IAE - Department of Economic Analysis, Francisco Tomás y Valiente
2 EUI - European University Institute
3 PSE - Paris School of Economics
4 CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne

The current European Union (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 program.

Mots clés: immigration policy; EU policy; tradable quotas; refugee resettlement; asylum seekers; international public goods

Domaines: Economies et finances

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport. Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy. CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), pp.638-672. ⟨10.1093/cesifo/ifu037⟩. ⟨hal-01304179⟩