Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga; Hillel Rapoport

doi:10.1186/s40174-015-0045-y

Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
, Hillel Rapoport

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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. JEL codes: F22, F5, H87, I3, K33, 019.

Original language	English
Article number	23
Journal	IZA Journal of European Labor Studies
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40174-015-0045-y
State	Published - 1 Dec 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Rapoport.

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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

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

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