# Prof. Michael Spence's research on job growth in the United States is cited

1 Faculty News May 2, 2014 ![The Atlantic logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031336.jpg?itok=T4ciY3Gl)>

Excerpt from [The Atlantic](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/its-expensive-to-be-poor/361533/) -- "In fact, as [Michael Spence](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/a-michael-spence)'s research has shown, about 90 percent of job growth went to such 'untradable' sectors between 1990 and 2007. These industries are mostly gaining jobs, not shedding them."

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