On Gale and Shapley 'College admissions and stability of marriage'

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Author/s: 
Jean J. Gabszewicz, Filomena Garcia, Joana Pais and Joana Resende
Issue number: 
2008/67
Publisher: 
CORE
Year: 
2008
In this note, we start to claim that established marriages can be heavily destabilized when the population of existing couples is enriched by the arrival of new candidates to marriage. Afterwards, we discuss briefly how stability concepts can be extended to account for entry and exit phenomena affecting the composition of the marriage market.
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