http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/33097?utm_source=MPC+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e8babb5846-New_MPC_RSCAS_working_paper_10_14_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5739ea1f8b-e8babb5846-73568189
A new MPC Working Paper "Tradable refugee-admission quotas : a policy proposal to reform the EU asylum policy" by Hillel Rapoport (Migration Policy Centre and Paris School of Economics) and Jesús Fernandez – Huertas (Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA))
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 existing system. We illustrate this claim using the recent problems regarding relocation faced by the European Relocation from Malta (EUREMA) program.
