This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … assortative matching, as women forgo specialization which may not be compensated upon divorce. Using state-level data on alimony …-based measures of assortative matching increase similarly. Moreover, we find the largest effects among those groups who might be more …

their match. We study two prevalent approaches for matching within organizations: Centralized assignment by firm leaders and …

production determined by a matching process between workers and jobs. Macroeconomic equilibrium (national savings equal to …

labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … labor force and rises the share of attached workers. Finally, our theory suggests that contrary to two-state models …