Is assortative matching efficient?

Economic Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 475-493

  Durlauf, S N ^a   Seshadri, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative matching; Matching models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038305761     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-002-0269-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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