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Articles in May 2004 issue of Monthly Labor Review

• International unit labor costs
• Publications received
• Measuring labor dynamics: the next generation in labor market information: the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages provides the core of BLS business statistics; now, new data linkages between the QCEW and unemployment insurance wage records enable e
  by Richard L. Clayton
• Current labor statistics
• Alaska's 'brain drain': myth or reality? A variety of administrative data are used to determine if the long-term education, employment, and outmigration patterns of Alaska's youth are draining Alaska's labor force, causing 'brain drain'
  by Jeff Hadland
• Job mobility and hourly wages: is there a relationship? There is a positive correlation between wages and tenure in Minnesota; specifically, workers earning high wages exhibit high tenure and change jobs less frequently compared with workers earning low w
  by Mustapha Hammida
• Employment and wage outcomes for North Carolina's high-tech workers: North Carolina's employment surge in "high-tech" industries has captured many economic planners' focus; these industries may provide high-paying employment to workers in declin
  by Robert Bowles
• Using wage records in workforce investments in Ohio: rehabilitation/wage-record followup reports jointly developed in the 1990s by two Ohio State agencies and the Unemployment Compensation Program enable the agencies to track the status of former clients
  by Rich Gordon
• The May review
• High-tech rankings
• Mothers' labor force participation
• Next: flexible upper lips?
• Women's working hours
• EITC's impact
  by David Mitchell
• Employees' health insurance payments
• Rule of law
  by Michael Wald