I am excited to share my op-ed in the New York Times which features my ongoing research on talent mobility, including my collaboration with the White House under the Obama administration. I hope we can bring change – May the Fourth be with Us! One of the arguments I make in the article which I have not developed elsewhere is that while noncompete restrictions impose hardships on every worker, for women these restrictions tend to be compounded with other mobility constraints, including the need to coordinate dual careers, family geographical ties and job market re-entry after family leave. In other words, non-compete restrictions are likely to have a disparate impact on women and to contribute to the gender pay gap. I would of course love to get your thoughts. Here you can read the whole article.
I really like the original illustration by Scott Menchin in both the print and the digital editions. What I don’t love is that the Times changed my title from Let Us Compete to Companies Compete but Won’t Let Their Workers do the Same in the digital — because it is questionable whether some companies these days compete enough, as Kenneth Bamberger and I are asking in a new paper called Platform Market Power, about antitrust law, dominance, and competition in the digital era; and in the print edition they gave it the title, Isn’t Competition a Worker’s Right? – which it should be yes, but my arguments