A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

In this paper, we study the crowdsourcing of innovation in Africa through a data science contest on an intermediated … deploying AI? What are the obstacles they perceive to the greater diffusion of AI in Africa? We conclude that crowdsourcing of …

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

sources of finance. The scale of restructuring and innovation activity is as high or higher in transition economies as in …

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill … signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among which we ask a large representative sample of German human …

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three keyfactors affecting supply …