Table of Contents
The development of Silicon Valley's high-velocity labor market -- Pt. I. The information story. Mobile employees, information spillover, and trade secrets ; A new economic analysis of trade secrets law from an economics of information perspective ; Information ownership and transmission by mobile employees: alternative economic approaches -- Pt. II. The flexibility story. How flexible labor is hired I: temporary help employees who work at one client ("permatemps") ; How flexible labor Is hired II: independent contractors ; H-lB Visas -- Pt. III. Labor market intermediaries: information and flexibility. Labor market intermediaries: matching workers to jobs ; Employee organization: networks, ethnic organization, new unions -- Pt. IV. Flexible (and informational) compensation. Stock options: their law and economics ; Market failure in retirement savings and health insurance -- Pt. V. Inequality. Employment discrimination? How a meritocracy creates disparate labor market outcomes through demands for skills at hiring, networks of employees, entrepreneurial tendencies -- Conclusion -- Appendix: interview subjects and table of cases and statutes.