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Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement

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  • David Delacrétaz
  • Scott Duke Kominers
  • Alexander Teytelboym

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Tens of thousands of refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. In the past, placement of refugees was essentially ad hoc, but more recently resettlement agencies have been trying to place refugees systematically in order to improve their outcomes. Yet, even at present, refugee resettlement processes account for neither the priorities of hosting communities nor the preferences of refugees themselves. Building on models from two-sided matching theory, we introduce a new framework for matching with multidimensional constraints that models refugee families' needs for multiple units of different services, as well as the service capacities of localities. We propose four refugee resettlement mechanisms and two solution concepts that can be used in refugee resettlement matching under various institutional and informational constraints. Our mechanisms can improve match efficiency, respect priorities of localities, and incentivize refugees to report where they would prefer to settle.

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  • David Delacrétaz & Scott Duke Kominers & Alexander Teytelboym, 2019. "Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement," Working Papers 2019-078, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    • Handle: RePEc:hka:wpaper:2019-078
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    1. Miralles, Antonio & Pycia, Marek, 2021. "Foundations of pseudomarkets: Walrasian equilibria for discrete resources," Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier, vol. 196(C).
    2. Maximilian Kasy & Alexander Teytelboym, 2020. "Adaptive Combinatorial Allocation," Papers 2011.02330, arXiv.org.
    3. Hitoshi Matsushima, 2021. "Assignments with Ethical Concerns," CARF F-Series CARF-F-514, Center for Advanced Research in Finance, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
    4. Devansh Jalota & Michael Ostrovsky & Marco Pavone, 2022. "Matching with Transfers under Distributional Constraints," Papers 2202.05232, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2022.
    5. Samuel Dooley & John P. Dickerson, 2020. "The Affiliate Matching Problem: On Labor Markets where Firms are Also Interested in the Placement of Previous Workers," Papers 2009.11867, arXiv.org.
    6. Dilek Sayedahmed, 2022. "Centralized refugee matching mechanisms with hierarchical priority classes," The Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, Society for the Promotion of Mechanism and Institution Design, University of York, vol. 7(1), pages 71-111, December.

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    Keywords

    refugee resettlement; multidimensional constraints; matching efficiency;
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    JEL classification:

    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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