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Hal Singer is managing director of Econ One, a professor in the economics department at the University of Utah, and the executive director the Utah Project.

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New Study Links Wireless Adoption to Jobs: It’s All About the Spectrum (and Siri)

Hal Singer January 31, 2012

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Economists recognize that the source of sustainable, private-sector jobs is investment. Due to measurement problems with investment data, however, it is sometimes easier to link a byproduct of investment—namely, adoption of the technology made possible by the investment—to job creation. This is precisely what economists Rob Shapiro and Kevin Hassett have done in their new study on the employment effects of wireless investments.

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