Social integration in two-sided matching markets

DOI10.1016/J.JMATECO.2018.08.003MaRDI QIDQ1800976zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Josué Ortega

Publication date 26 October 2018

Published in Journal of Mathematical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08033

zbMATH Keywords

matching schemesintegration monotonicitysocial integration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Matching models (91B68)

Abstract: When several two-sided matching markets merge into one, it is inevitable that some agents will become worse off if the matching mechanism used is stable. I formalize this observation by defining the property of integration monotonicity, which requires that every agent becomes better off after any number of matching markets merge. Integration monotonicity is also incompatible with the weaker efficiency property of Pareto optimality. Nevertheless, I obtain two possibility results. First, stable matching mechanisms never hurt more than one-half of the society after the integration of several matching markets occurs. Second, in random matching markets there are positive expected gains from integration for both sides of the market, which I quantify.

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