1.   A Rutgers University labor economist, Leo Troy, believes intensifying global competition will render old-style unionism irrelevant.

2.   But even before its formal release, the study drew criticism from labor economists familiar with its contents.

3.   But Henry Farber, a labor economist at Princeton University, has found an anomaly buried in the data that raises questions about the accuracy of the figures.

4.   But labor economists say there is a dark side to the trend.

5.   But there is a huge body of research by labor economists suggesting that employees as a group bear the costs.

6.   But two widely respected labor economists, David Card and Alan Krueger of Princeton University, contend the numbers support the opposite conclusion.

7.   Elliot Winer, a labor market economist with the state Division of Employment and Training, suggests we look at demographic changes to explain what may be happening.

8.   For Rose, a prominent labor economist, the study is an important explanation of the sources of wage inequality.

9.   If so, that means less economic expansion, fewer jobs -- and less leverage for workers to seek higher wages and benefits, labor economists say.

10.   In such a brief, the plaintiffs would use information and computer data obtained from the company and analyzed by a labor economist.