Noncompetes suppress worker mobility and earnings without protecting trade secrets

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Findings recently published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics provide, according to the study's authors, the clearest cause-and-effect evidence to date that noncompete agreements reduce worker mobility and earnings—while offering no measurable be…

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:20:14 UTC.

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