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Articles in Feb, 2005 issue of Monthly Labor Review

• Price trends in 2004
• Publications received
• The transition from school to work: education and work experiences: data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 found that the average worker, approximately 5 years after leaving school for the first time, starts a job that will last 3 years;
  by Julie A. Yates
• Self-employment, entrepreneurship, and the NLSY79: researchers have used the rich data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate the relationship between self-employment and various job and earnings outcomes; future
  by Robert W. Fairlie
• Antecedents and predecessors of NLSY79: paving the course: a historical view of the NLSY79 development stages highlights lessons learned during an era filled with new concepts and innovations in sociology, economics, and computer science
  by James R. Walker
• Ad agents profiled
• Raising productivity
• Affording gas
• The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1979 cohort at 25: the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth has been a font of information for researchers of all stripes; the Monthly Labor Review brings together the results of research on t
  by Charles Pierret
• Union membership
• Measuring health
• Job mobility and wage growth: evidence from the NLSY79
  by Audrey Light
• The February review
• State unemployment trends
• Essays on economics
  by Mary Kokoski
• Children of the NLSY79: a unique data resource: the survey provides a wealth of information on the education, socioeconomic background, and cognitive, social, and emotional development of children aged 14 and younger; and on the workforce participation, e
  by Lawrence L. Wu
• Education data in the NLSY79: a premiere research tool: social science researchers widely use the NLSY79 schooling data because of its longitudinal nature and range of content
  by Kenneth I. Wolpin
• The problem of respondent attrition: survey methodology is key; longitudinal surveys will suffer from attrition and nothing will change that; however, years of lessons learned in the field show that straightforward survey methodology can minimize the impa
  by Randall J. Olsen
• Errata
• Current labor statistics
• Worker training: what we've learned from the NLSY79: the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth has been a wellspring of knowledge about worker training and a valuable means of empirically testing human-capital theory
  by Harley J. Frazis