Returns to scale in a matching model of the labor market

Economics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 135-142

  Warren Jr , Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Matching technology; Multiple equilibria

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030305888     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00719-9     Document Type: Article

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