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Matching Markets: the Particular Case of Couples

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  • David Cantala

    (El Colegio de Mexico)

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We consider one-to-one markets where workers can apply to a centralized procedure either alone or as a couple, in order to reach a core- stable matching of firms and workers. We impose stringent restrictions on the preferences of couples capturing the fact that spouses want to live in the same region, which are shown to be incompatible with the guarantee of the existence of a stable matching.

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  • David Cantala, 2004. "Matching Markets: the Particular Case of Couples," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 3(45), pages 1-11.
    • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-04c70009
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    1. Perach, Nitsan & Anily, Shoshana, 2022. "Stable matching of student-groups to dormitories," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 302(1), pages 50-61.
    2. Rouzbeh Ghouchani & Szilvia Pápai, 2022. "Preference aggregation for couples," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 59(4), pages 889-923, November.
    3. Lars Ehlers & Jordi Massó, 2004. "Incomplete Information and Small Cores in Matching Markets," Working Papers 147, Barcelona School of Economics.
    4. Aslan, Fatma & Lainé, Jean, 2020. "Competitive equilibria in Shapley–Scarf markets with couples," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 66-78.
    5. Dogan, Onur & Laffond, Gilbert & Lainé, Jean, 2011. "The Core of Shapley-Scarf markets with couples," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(1), pages 60-67, January.
    6. Péter Biró & Flip Klijn, 2013. "Matching With Couples: A Multidisciplinary Survey," International Game Theory Review (IGTR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 15(02), pages 1-18.
    7. Hatfield, John William & Kominers, Scott Duke, 2017. "Contract design and stability in many-to-many matching," Games and Economic Behavior, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 78-97.
    8. Eric J. McDermid & David F. Manlove, 2010. "Keeping partners together: algorithmic results for the hospitals/residents problem with couples," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 19(3), pages 279-303, April.
    9. Thanh Nguyen & Rakesh Vohra, 2014. "Near Feasible Stable Matchings with Complementarities," PIER Working Paper Archive 14-028, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
    10. Jay Sethuraman & Chung-Piaw Teo & Liwen Qian, 2006. "Many-to-One Stable Matching: Geometry and Fairness," Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 31(3), pages 581-596, August.
    11. Delorme, Maxence & García, Sergio & Gondzio, Jacek & Kalcsics, Joerg & Manlove, David & Pettersson, William, 2021. "Stability in the hospitals/residents problem with couples and ties: Mathematical models and computational studies," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).

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    couples;

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    • C7 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory

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