We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model …

We embed a two-sided matching market with non-transferable utility, a marriage market, into a random search model. We … matchings for the underlying marriage market. We show that this is the case if and only if there is a unique stable matching … decentralized marriage markets. …

We know from Gale and Shapley (1962) that every Two-Sided Matching Game has a stable solution. It is also well … mechanisms, one of which is a variant of the other, to the marriage problem. Our original mechanism implements the full set of …

In this paper we study marriage formation through a two-sided secretary problem approach. We consider individuals with … characteristics. We show that individuals with higher universal characteristic tend to be more picky in their marriage hunting. This …