# Professor Michael Spence's work on job creation is referenced in a story on the skills gap

1 Faculty News February 18, 2019 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johneverhard/2019/02/18/teaching-digital-subjects-alone-wont-close-the-skills-gap/#7a5e56b94695) -- "Godin quotes Nobel prize-winning economist [Michael Spence](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/a-michael-spence) who divides up jobs between those that are tradeable and could be done somewhere else such as manufacturing a car; and those that are non-tradeable like frying fish and chips. Spence’s killer finding, says Godin, is that in the USA alone only 600,000 new tradeable jobs were added between 1990 and 2008."

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