AMAZING! The NJ Supreme Court just deemed non-disparagement agreements unenforceable as part of the state's ban against non-disclosure agreements. Along with WA, NJ now the gold standard for workplace transparency with respect to human rights violations. njcourts.gov/system/files/c…

Remote work brings new opportunities for economic and human development!

In a new paper at Organization Science, my coauthors (@prithwic, Evan Starr) and I study how pro-social behavior is critical for localities to benefit from attracting remote workers

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May the fourth be with you (a few days late).

Today this paper with Michael Lipsitz and Takuya Hiraiwa was accepted The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)!

Thanks to our editor Will Dobbie and two excellent referees for a fantastic review experience, which improved the paper at each iteration, and with very quick turnaround times!

ICYMI, today Yuri Rashkin 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 talked with Evan Starr about the FTC's decision to ban noncompete agreements. What does it mean for workers? What does it mean for employers? Who's challenging it and why? It's all here: wortfm.org/may-day-the-ft…

.Maryland Smith School of Business's Evan Starr discusses the FTC ban on noncompete agreements, via WORT 89.9FM Madison and #soundcloud soundcloud.com/wort-fm/may-da…

Today, we are proud to introduce the #JusticeOutcomesExplorer ! JOE is a publicly available data dashboard that provides a fresh glimpse into how the criminal justice system touches the lives of millions of Americans every year: joe.cjars.org [1/10] 🧵

If you’re wondering why a ban on noncompetes makes sense even for executives, check out Peter Coy’s distillation of the main ideas.

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This thread is a great example of why theory can mislead us and why good empirical evidence matters.

Soumaya Keynes with some good thoughts on the recent discussion of how economists can be more useful to policymakers, triggered by Jed Kolko's recent article.

Let me add four thoughts of my own.

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tylercowen writes that 'With or without noncompetes, it is hard to just walk away from a major tech company and start competing with it'.

Of course, this is true broadly. And indeed, we know that firms are growing larger and older and entrepreneurship is down across the…

Our man Evan Starr has a great review of the reams of evidence here, which I encourage you to check out:
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What a timing! Our paper on non-compete clauses in #Italy with Tito Boeri & Lorenzo Luisetto published online in The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization the day after the historic FTC decision to ban #noncompetes in the US.
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Let's take a look at what economics tell us about a ban on non-compete agreements starting with Coase.
In a world of no transaction costs and complete information, who holds the right shouldn't have real effects on the economy but it will have distributional effects. [1/x]

In Episode 3 of the The Slingshot, Evan Starr discussed his research, which was instrumental in understanding the effects on noncompetes. Check it out.

#Antitrust #noncompetes

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