Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Sunday, February 4, 2024

How is immigration policy working on the US-Mexico border?

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  Yesterday's post linked to a paper about immigration policy, and today let's look at a report on the results of existing policy:...
Saturday, February 3, 2024

Report card on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration

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  Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration sounds like a good goal for border control in the U.S.  It isn't what is happening, but there...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Refugees in the middle east, since 1949

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  Al Jazeera provides some interesting statistics and graphics in a story about UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palest...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Refugee resettlement and the top trading cycles algorithm, by Farajzadeh, Killea, Teytelboym, and Trapp

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  Here's a recent paper that (among other things) considers using the top trading cycles algorithm for matching refugees to sponsors (un...
Monday, October 2, 2023

Immigration, immigration law, and illegal immigrants in legal limbo. Should we have a statute of limitations after which immigrants become legal?

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We're seeing so much illegal immigration, maybe we should change some of our laws, at least to regularize the status of immigrants who h...
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Matching Mechanisms for Refugee Resettlement By Delacrétaz, Kominers, and Teytelboym

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Learning how better to resettle refugees is not going to go out of style anytime soon.  Here's a recent AER paper: Matching Mechanisms f...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Resettling refugees using preferences of refugees and hosts

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 Here's the latest report from HIAS on matching Ukrainian refugees to hosts in the U.S. How an Innovative Algorithm Helps Ukrainian Refu...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Improving refugee resettlement: insights from market design by Justin Hadad and Alexander Teytelboym

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 The Autumn 2022 issue of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy is about forced migration.  Here's a paper directly related to market des...