Dataset
Data and code for: The Impact of Non-Competes on Wages and Job Tenure: New Evidence from NLSY Data
2026
Abstract
We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) to study the effects of non-compete agreement (NCA) incidence on wages and job tenure for both low- and high-education workers. To identify these effects, we exploit the complete work histories available in the NLSY97, which allows us to compare job-to-job transitions of workers with an NCA status change to transitions of workers without a change. We apply the “clean controls” local projections difference-in- differences (LP-DiD) methodology, thus addressing concerns about staggered treatment adoption and heterogeneous effects across treatment cohorts that arise with standard two-way fixed effect models.
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- Title
- Data and code for: The Impact of Non-Competes on Wages and Job Tenure: New Evidence from NLSY Data
- Creators
- Tristan Potter - Drexel UniversityAndre Kurmann - Drexel UniversityBart Hobijn - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
- Publisher
- ICPSR - Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
- Resource Type
- Dataset
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Economics (School of Economics)
- Other Identifier
- 991022191280504721