This paper studies the behaviour of firms of different size with respect to their behaviour in matching vacant jobs to job searchers. We have specified and estimated a matching function for firms of different size in The Netherlands, according to the number of employees. We found no difference...

This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function, where the measure of job matches as a dependent variable, corresponds to the stock of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been fulfilled. In this paper, we show...