1.   A Teamsters loss might also be a loss for labor, said Martin Kosters, a specialist in labor economics for the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

2.   He wrote and edited books about labor economics, labor relations, retirement-income policy and the history of economic thought.

3.   Only in the last decade has empirical economics gradually regained a footing, first in labor economics and then in finance, education and trade.

4.   Orley Ashenfelter, a Princeton economist, commented that the methods used in the study have made labor economics a powerful science.

5.   He developed his methodological contributions in conjunction with applied empirical research, particularly in labor economics.