Regional disadvantage? Employee non-compete agreements and brain drain

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 394-404

  Marx, Matt ^a   Singh, Jasjit ^b   Fleming, Lee ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor mobility; Non compete agreements; Regional economics

Indexed keywords

REGIONAL PLANNING;

BRAIN DRAIN; GROWING BODIES; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; LABOR MOBILITIES; LOCAL IMPACTS; MIGRATION PATTERNS; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; POLICY REVERSAL;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84920704745     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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