Structure, behavior, and market power in an evolutionary labor market with adaptive search

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 419-457

  Tesfatsion, Leigh ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive search; Agent based computational economics; C6; C7; Endogenous interactions; Evolutionary game; J6; Job capacity; Job concentration; L1; Labor market dynamics; Market power; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000101772     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1889(00)00032-4     Document Type: Article

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