41.   As cities on the move, Austin and Nashville also struggle with tight labor markets.

42.   As far as its impact on the U.S. labor market, the only foreseeable consequence is negative.

43.   As more and more U.S. corporations ducked the American labor market and went to the Far East, jobs were lost in this country.

44.   As a result, two societies with very similar unemployment rates can actually have quite different labor markets.

45.   As the labor market gets tighter, pay is going up faster.

46.   As the researchers dug deeper, however, they found great variation between the labor markets.

47.   As the Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow has written, the economic evidence that there is still prejudice against women and minority workers in labor markets remains overwhelming.

48.   AstraZeneca spokeswoman Lorraine Ryan said the company sees the benefit as a way to retain valued employees in a competitive labor market.

49.   As the labor market has weakened, wage growth has slowed, but only slightly.

50.   At the same time, powerful cultural forces still hobble European labor markets, where double-digit unemployment rates are common.