This paper assesses the contribution of software to India's economic development paying particular attention to the … role of the software in the absorption of labour and the development of human capital in the Indian economy. India …'s specialisation in software has been driven by two sorts of wage advantages that have reinforced each other: the lower wages for …

draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world’s largest incubator of open source software …

software activity. We explore the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for …