Re:Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers
by baronswindle on Monday May 20, 2019 @02:34AM
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Can you point to empirical studies that demonstrate "the negative consequences on the local economy that these agreements produce"? This is an honest question. I think theoretical analyses point in a bunch of different directions, and I reckon data would help inform our arguments.
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Re:Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers
by ScottBurson on Monday May 20, 2019 @12:07PM
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We have the natural experiment of California, which as I recall, if it were a country, would have the world's sixth or seventh largest economy.
Compare what's happened to the Boston metro area with Silicon Valley. Boston matches the Bay Area in top universities, and if you go back to the 1980s, had even more of the computer industry. But the Valley has outpaced it ever since, and by now has much greater economic vitality.
Re:Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers
by MiddleEndian on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @03:55AM
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As a Bostonian I agree. There was some recent Massachusetts legislation to limit non-competes but I wish they'd done away with them entirely like in California.