This study analyses the dynamic characteristics of staffing employment across different business sectors and across different geographical regions in the Netherlands. We analyse a micro data set of the market leader of the Dutch staffing employment market, i.e. Randstad. We apply the dynamic...

This paper employs concepts from information to choosing the dimension of a data set. We calculate relative measures of information in the data in terms of eigenvalues and derive criteria to determine the ‘optimal’ size of the data set, in particular whether an extra variable adds...