Idea 3: Preference Matching

The economist Alvin Roth has developed the idea of matching markets, ways in which the preference ranking of the parties shapes an eventual match.

Alexander Betts has been inspired by other economists and adapted their prepositions to suit that of refugees. This idea is the perfect example. Alexander believes that we should ask refugees to rank their preferred destinations, but also allow states to rank the types of refugees that they want, and would be most suited to the type of life in that specific country. They could do this on skills or language criteria for example.

“What we rarely do is ask refugees what they want, where they want to go.”