Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...

A growing body of research has documented the local impact of employee non-compete agreements, but their effect on interstate migration patterns remains unexplored. Exploiting an inadvertent policy reversal in Michigan as a natural experiment, we show that non-compete agreements are responsible...

Executive SummaryThis chapter describes recent research on postemployment covenants not to compete, as well as potential policy implications of such research. We propose that non-competes are an underappreciated lever for policy makers to wield in effecting entrepreneurial outcomes. We review...