How many jobs created by the iPod?
Posted by Muffuletta
About 14,000 in the US, and 27,000 outside the US, according to a study (pdf) by researchers at the Personal Computing Industry Center at UC Irvine. Not surprisingly, while most of the jobs are elsewhere, most of the wages are in the US. More in this Business Week post.
Among the questions not addressed in the BW post: how many wage dollars (as opposed to jobs) are lost by or denied to the US labor market and, on the other hand, what about work or revenue generated in application development for the iPod/iPhone?
Tags: apple, business, globalization, iPod, labor, research, UC Irvine