While prior research has considered the desirability and implications of employee mobility, less research has considered factors affecting the ease of mobility. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility —employee noncompete agreements—by exploiting Michigan's apparently-inadvertent 1985 reversal of its enforcement policy as a natural experiment. Using a differences-indifferences approa...

Nowadays, communications become essential in the information society. Everyone can get information anywhere, even in mobility environments, using different kinds of devices and communication technologies. In this frame the vehicle is another place where users stay for long periods. Thus, in addition to safety applications, considered as the most important services, other networked applications ...

This paper provides an analysis of human mobility data in an urban area using the amount of available bikes in the stations of the community bicycle program Bicing in Barcelona. Based on data sampled from the operator’s website, it is possible to detect temporal and geographic mobility patterns within the city. These patterns are applied to predict the number of available bikes for any station ...

This paper develops a mobility measure that combines desirable features of the relative and absolute approaches to measuring mobility. From the relative approach we borrow the idea that income growth accruing to the relatively poor is more to be valued than income growth to the relatively rich. From the absolute approach we take the idea that upward changes are to be valued, in and of themselve...

Perhaps the second most important of the MDGs is to achieve universal primary education, one of the most recognised pillars of human development. The priorities contemplated by the MDGs are comprehensive and mutually reinforcing, so while enhancing education is a development goal by itself, it is also widely recognised as the main avenue of social mobility and, therefore, of escaping poverty (M...

This paper investigates short-run wage effects of immigration in a setting with international capital mobility. The latter eliminates two thirds of the native wage effects of immigration. Without international capital mobility, overall gains from migration in the immigration region are only a small fraction of total losses to native workers; with perfect international capital mobility overall g...