Michael W. Mutek
We use a natural experiment to perform the first empirical analysis of the widely-claimed effect of no-poaching clauses on job-market concentration and wages. ILevy, DanielTardiff, Timothy J.Zhang, YiyuanSun, ChuanYamron, AlexSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
AACG research provides the first empirical analysis of the effect of no-poaching clauses in franchises on employee wages. Results show that no-poaching clauses do not reduce wages, and have little effect on the control of jobs by employers due to the large number of alternative jobs available...
Promoting Competition in the American Economy, the Administration directed the Attorney General and FTC Chair to consider revising the 2016 Antitrust Guidance, and to work with the rest of the Commission to exercise the FTC’s rulemaking authority to “curtail the...
Employees working for Apple, Google and other Silicon Valley tech firms sued their employers over alleged anti-poaching mandates enacted by executives, including late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. The complaint said defendants effectively put a cap on salaries by employing variousno-poach t...
ConcentrationHHIFranchiseContractual restrictions on mobility of workers across units within a franchise – "no-poaching" clauses – have recently attracted attention. The restrictions arLevy, DanielTardiff, Timothy J.Social Science Electronic Publishing...
We investigate the effect of the Washington State Attorney General's enforcement campaign against employee no-poach clauses in franchising contracts, which unfoCallaci, BrianPinto, SergioSteinbaum, MarshallWalsh, MatthewSocial Science Electronic Publishing...