Evan Starr

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

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Scholarly Papers (28)

1.

Noncompete Agreements in the U.S. Labor Force

Journal of Law and Economics 2021
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2023
Evan Starr, J.J. Prescott and Norman Bishara
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Michigan Law School and The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Downloads 5,872 (3,015)
Citation 60

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covenants not to compete, employment law, transparency

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Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence

Upjohn Institute Working Paper 22-360
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 09 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2024
Jason Sockin, Aaron Sojourner and Evan Starr
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 2,064 (16,761)
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Imperfect Information, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Externalities, Firm Reputation

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Low-Wage Workers and the Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements

Management Science
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 20 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2022
Michael Lipsitz and Evan Starr
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,960 (18,254)
Citation 25

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Low-Wage Workers, Non-compete Agreements, Wages, Mobility, Labor Market Frictions

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Binned Scatterplots: A Simple Tool to Make Research Easier and Better

Forthcoming, Strategic Management Journal
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2020
Evan Starr and Brent Goldfarb
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,610 (24,724)
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Data Visualization, Binned Scatterplots, Graphs

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Consider This: Training, Wages, and the Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete

Forthcoming at Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2018
Evan Starr
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,367 (31,543)
Citation 49

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Training, Wages, Employee Mobility, Covenants Not to Compete

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Employment Restrictions on Resource Transferability and Value Appropriation from Employees

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 17 May 2024
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 1,222 (37,153)

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Employment Restrictions, Value Appropriation, Bargaining Power, Bundling

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Locked In? The Enforceability of Covenants Not to Compete and the Careers of High-Tech Workers

Forthcoming at Journal of Human Resources, Ross School of Business Paper No. 1339, US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP-17-09
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 25 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2020
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,160 (40,144)
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Covenants Not to Compete, Wages, Mobility, Monopsony

We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs v. Jackson

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 15 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2024
Indeed.com, Indeed.com, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, Indeed.com, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 1,093 (43,092)
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Job search, gender, politics, abortion, culture, job satisfaction

We've Got You Covered: Employer and Employee Responses to Dobbs V. Jackson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16360
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 11 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2023
Indeed.com, Indeed.com, University of Southern California, Indeed.com, IZA and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 61 (780,232)

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culture, abortion, politics, gender, job search, job satisfaction

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The Behavioral Effects of (Unenforceable) Contracts

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 26 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2022
Evan Starr, J.J. Prescott and Norman Bishara
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Michigan Law School and The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan
Downloads 948 (53,423)
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Unenforceable Contracts, Covenants Not to Compete, Employee Mobility, In Terrorem Effects

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Mobility Constraint Externalities

Starr, E., Frake, J., & Agarwal, R. 2019. Mobility constraint externalities. Organization Science, 30(5), 961-980.
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2023
Evan Starr, Justin Frake and Rajshree Agarwal
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 827 (64,479)
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Employee Mobility, Noncompetes, Job Satisfaction, Wages, Noncompetes

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Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 24 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 03 May 2024
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 777 (70,017)
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Noncompete Agreements, Revealed Preference, Court Enforceability, Bunching

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The Incomplete Noncompete Picture

Norman D. Bishara & Evan Starr, The Incomplete Noncompete Picture, 20 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 497, 497–546 (2016) , Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2782137
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 May 2016 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2016
Norman Bishara and Evan Starr
The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 698 (80,514)
Citation 1

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Covenants not to compete, noncompetes, employee mobility

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Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation

Forthcoming at Strategic Management Journal
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2020
Harvard University - Business School (HBS), University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 686 (82,303)
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Machine Learning, Human Capital, Complementarities

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Subjective Beliefs about Contract Enforceability

Forthcoming at Journal of Legal Studies
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 13 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022
J.J. Prescott and Evan Starr
University of Michigan Law School and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 660 (86,460)
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Subjective Beliefs, Contract Enforceability, Covenants Not to Compete, Employee Mobility

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Screening Spinouts? How Noncompete Enforceability Affects the Creation, Growth, and Survival of New Firms

Management Science, Forthcoming, US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 14-27
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2016
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management
Downloads 659 (86,622)
Citation 43

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Covenants Not to Compete, Entrepreneurship, Spinouts

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Understanding Noncompetition Agreements: The 2014 Noncompete Survey Project

Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2016, No. 2, pp. 369-464, 2016
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 24 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2020
J.J. Prescott, Norman Bishara and Evan Starr
University of Michigan Law School, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 637 (90,499)
Citation 1

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Noncompetes, Noncompetition Agreements, Covenants Not to Compete, Empirical, Survey Data

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From Perfect to Practical: Partial Identification Methods for Causal Inference in Strategic Management Research

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 17 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2025
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 622 (93,268)
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Employee Mobility, Patents, Partial Identification

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Strategic Human Capital Management in the Context of Cross-Industry and Within-Industry Mobility Frictions

Strategic Management Journal, Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 2753720
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 25 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2018
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Management and Human Resources and The Ohio State University - Fisher College of Business
Downloads 494 (124,382)
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Employee mobility, Industry Specific Human Capital, Strategic human capital, Covenants Not to Compete, Labor Market Frictions

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Clause and Effect: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence on Noncompete Clauses

Number of pages: 107 Posted: 13 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2025
Bo Cowgill, Brandon Freiberg and Evan Starr
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 427 (148,340)

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Noncompete clauses, earnings, knowledge diffusion, mobility, contracting, inattention, enforcement risk

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Mobility Restrictions, Bargaining, and Wages: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Dec 2021
Donna S. Rothstein and Evan Starr
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 372 (172,885)

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Noncompete Agreements, Bargaining, Wages

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Supporting Market Accountability, Workplace Equity, and Fair Competition by Reining in Non-Disclosure Agreements

Day One Project, UC Hastings Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 Feb 2022
University of Florida Levin College of Law, Lift Our Voices, University of San Diego School of Law, Lift Our Voices, UC Law, San Francisco and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 366 (176,076)

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Non-Disclosure Agreements, Secrecy

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Can You Keep a Secret? Banning Noncompetes Does Not Increase Trade Secret Litigation

Donald G. Costello College of Business at George Mason University Research Paper
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2025
George Mason University - Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 313 (208,624)
Citation 1

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Noncompete Agreements, Trade Secrets, Litigation, Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, Courthouse News, Westlaw, Difference in Differences, Misappropriation

23.

Are Noncompetes Holding Down Wages?

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 15 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2019
Evan Starr
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 269 (244,686)
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Covenants Not to Compete, Wages

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Location-Specificity and Relocation Incentive Programs for Remote Workers

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 23-071
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 05 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2024
Harvard University - Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 224 (293,255)
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Comment by Evan Starr to the Federal Trade Commission Re: Non-Compete Clause Rulemaking, Matter No. P201200

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 May 2023
Evan Starr
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 162 (394,473)

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Noncompete Agreements, Federal Trade Commission

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Reconciling Theories on Why Employees of Small Firms Are More Likely to Become Entrepreneurs

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2023
Benjamin C King, Martin Ganco and Evan Starr
Tulane University, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Management and Human Resources and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 134 (460,964)

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Entrepreneurship, Small Firm Effect, Intrapreneurship

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From Hypothesis Testing Towards Inference to Best Explanation: A PEEBI Testimonial Structure for Abductive Studies in Strategy

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Feb 2025
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Drexel University - Bennett S. LeBow College of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 116 (515,910)

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Abduction, Philosophy of Science, Narratives, Testimony, Reasoning

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Association between Physician Noncompete Agreements and Healthcare Access

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Nov 2023
Syracuse University - Whitman School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business and State University of New York (SUNY) - SUNY Upstate Medical University
Downloads 116 (515,910)

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Noncompete Agreements, Healthcare Access, Firm Formation, Growth, Survival