"Workers" are abundant. It's the human capital associated with the workers that's expensive. Engineers moving to California should be considered like other capi

"Workers" are abundant. It's the human capital associated with the workers that's expensive. Engineers moving to California should be considered like other capital flows: there are unlikely to be major flows into places where their flexibility is unduly impaired by regulations structured to favor existing, powerful incumbent interests (in this case, the noncompetes).