Prior studies have shown that automated variable selection results in models with substantially inflated estimates of the model R2, and that a large proportion of selected variables are truly noise variables. These earlier studies used simulated data sets whose sample sizes were at most 100. We...

Several changes have been taking place in the labour market since the 1970s that have created the right climate to spur organisations and workers to demand greater flexibility in employment. In this context, temporary employment has been the focus of many research papers and temporary contracts...