Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7359381 Journal of Economic Theory 2016 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
We analyze a decentralized process in a basic labor market where finitely many heterogeneous firms and workers meet directly and randomly in pursuit of higher payoffs over time and agents may behave myopically. We find a general random decentralized market process that almost surely converges in finite time to a competitive equilibrium of the market. A key proposition en route to this result exhibits a finite sequence of successive bilateral trades from an arbitrary initial market state to a stable matching between firms and workers with a scheme of competitive salary offers.
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