Working in Silicon Valley: Economic and Legal Analysis of a High-velocity Labor Market: Economic and Legal Analysis of a High-velocity Labor Market,9780765607515

Working in Silicon Valley: Economic and Legal Analysis of a High-velocity Labor Market: Economic and Legal Analysis of a High-velocity Labor Market

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ISBN13: 9780765607515
ISBN10: 0765607514
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2003-04-30
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
The Development of Silicon Valley's High-Velocity Labor Market
3(22)
Part I. The Information Story
25(66)
Mobile Employees, Information Spillover, and Trade Secrets
27(14)
A New Economic Analysis of Trade Secrets Law from an Economics of Information Perspective
41(30)
Information Ownership and Transmission by Mobile Employees: Alternative Economic Approaches
71(20)
Part II. The Flexibility Story
91(50)
How Flexible Labor Is Hired I: Temporary Help Employees Who Work at One Client (``Permatemps'')
93(19)
How Flexible Labor Is Hired II: Independent Contractors
112(13)
H-1B Visas
125(16)
Part III. Labor Market Intermediaries: Information and Flexibility
141(42)
Labor Market Intermediaries: Matching Workers to Jobs
143(8)
Employee Organization: Networks, Ethnic Organization, New Unions
151(32)
Part IV. Flexible (and Informational) Compensation
183(34)
Stock Options: Their Law and Economics
185(21)
Market Failure in Retirement Savings and Health Insurance
206(11)
Part V. Inequality
217(38)
Employment Discrimination? How a Meritocracy Creates Disparate Labor Market Outcomes Through Demands for Skills at Hiring, Networks of Employees, Entrepreneurial Tendencies
219(36)
Conclusion 255(8)
Appendix: Interview Subjects and Table of Cases and Statutes 263(6)
References 269(26)
Index 295

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