Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of the proportion of temporary workers on the profit-to-sales ratio (or price-cost margin) of Spanish manufacturing firms in the 1990s. Design/methodology/approach – The relation between the proportion of temporary workers and the...

The aim of this paper is to assess the determinants of cyclists’ performance over the season, particularly the effect of being a team leader. Several efficiency indicators are used, the most common being the number of Cycling Quotient (CQ) points accumulated by riders divided by the number of...

In this paper, we estimate labour participation equations for married women for eleven European countries, using data from the European Community Household Panel corresponding to the years 1994, 1995 and 1996. The main objective of our study is to test whether the 'added worker effect' holds....