Locked in? The Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete and the Careers of High-Tech Workers
dc.contributor.author | Chang, Jin Woo | |
dc.contributor.author | Sivadasan, Jagadeesh | |
dc.contributor | Balasubramanian, Natarajan | |
dc.contributor | Sakakibara, Mariko | |
dc.contributor | Starr, Evan P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-17T13:49:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-02-17T13:49:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-01 | |
dc.identifier | 1339 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-17-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/136096 | |
dc.description.abstract | We examine how the enforceability of covenants not to compete (CNCs) affects employee mobility and wages of high-tech workers. We expect CNC enforceability to lengthen job spells and constrain mobility, but its impact on wages is ambiguous. Using a matched employer-employee dataset covering the universe of jobs in thirty U.S states, we find that higher CNC enforceability is associated with longer job spells (fewer jobs over time), and a greater chance of leaving the state for technology workers. Consistent with a “lock-in” effect of CNCs, we find persistent wage-suppressing effects that last throughout a worker’s job and employment history. | en_US |
dc.subject | mobility | en_US |
dc.subject | human capital | en_US |
dc.subject | bargaining | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | Business Economics | en_US |
dc.title | Locked in? The Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete and the Careers of High-Tech Workers | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Business (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Ross School of Business | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Policy Area | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | University of Maryland Robert H Smith School of Business | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136096/1/1339_Chang.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Business, Stephen M. Ross School of - Working Papers Series |
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