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Asylum Assignment and Burden-Sharing

Theoretical Economics 2025-11-27 v1

Abstract

We analyze the problem of matching asylum seekers to member states, incorporating wait times, preferences of asylum seekers, and the priorities, capacities, and burden-sharing commitments of member states. We identify a unique choice rule that addresses feasibility while balancing priorities and capacities. We examine the effects of both homogeneous and heterogeneous burden-sizes among asylum seekers on the matching process. Our main result shows that when all asylum seekers are treated as having identical burden-sizes, the asylum-seeker-proposing cumulative offer mechanism guarantees both stability and strategy-proofness. In contrast, when burden-sizes vary, there are scenarios where achieving stability or strategy-proofness is no longer possible.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21147,
  title  = {Asylum Assignment and Burden-Sharing},
  author = {Gian Caspari and Manshu Khanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21147},
  year   = {2025}
}
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