Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74255 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 87.2007
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper studies many-to-one matching market in which each agent’s preferences not only depend on the institution that hires her, but also on the group of her colleagues, which are matched to the same institution. With an unrestricted domain of preferences the non-emptiness of the core is not guaranteed. Under certain conditions on agents’ preferences, we show that two possible situations in which, at least, one stable allocation exists, emerge. The first condition, called Group Togetherness, reflects real-life situations in which agents are more concerned about an acceptable set of colleagues than about the firm hiring them. The second one, Common Best Colleague, refers to markets in which a workers’ ranking is accepted by workers and firms present in such markets.
Subjects: 
Many-to-one matching
Hedonic
Coalitions
Stability
Colleagues
JEL: 
C78
D71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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