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As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living

  • November 19, 2012
  • The Progressive Policy Institute

PPI Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel was quoted  in the New York Times on job creation in the App Economy:

A study commissioned by the tech advocacy group TechNet found that the “app economy” — including Apple, Facebook, Google’s Android and other app platforms — was responsible, directly and indirectly, for 466,000 jobs. The study used a methodology that searched online help-wanted ads.

Michael Mandel, the economist who conducted the TechNet study, said it was problematic to slice the jobs data as Apple had done. “The guy who writes an Apple app one day will write an Android app the next day,” he said. “You can’t add up all the numbers from every study to get the total number of jobs.”

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