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Andrea Garnero

Andrea Garnero is a labor economist at the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs of the OECD. He is also a research fellow at Université libre de Bruxelles (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management). He works in particular on minimum wages and collective bargaining in OECD countries. Since August 2017 he is a member of the French minimum wage expert commission ("Groupe d'experts sur le SMIC"). Andrea got his PhD in labour economics at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris School of Economics and Université libre de Bruxelles in January 2015. Previously he worked as assistant for economic affairs and G20 assistant Sherpa to the Italian Prime Minister and as an economist at the European Commission (DG Employment).
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What the Practice of Noncompetes in Italy Says About the Current American Debate

Tito Boeri
American antitrust regulators have recently taken aim at noncompete clauses. They argue that noncompetes suppress labor bargaining power and thus wages. The Italian labor market differs from its American counterpart in its rigid protections for labor, but the use of noncompetes in Italy occur at about the same rate as in the United States and shows a correlation with lower wages for workers whose noncompete clauses are unjustified because their jobs require little training and do not grant access to trade secrets. The evidence from Italy suggests that better regulation of noncompetes and informing workers of their rights is justified on the whole.

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