Returns to open source software engagement : an empirical test of the signaling hypothesis

Jürgen Bitzer, Ingo Geishecker and Philipp J. H. Schröder

Job-Market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why individuals engage voluntarily in OSS projects. If true, signaling implies the existence of a wage premium for OSS engagement. However, due to a lack of data this issue has not been tested previously. Based on a novel data set comprising detailed demographic and wage information for some 7,000 German IT employees, this paper fills this gap. In the empirical analysis, however, we find no support for the signaling hypothesis, a result that is robust to different measures of OSS involvement and different model specifications.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Bitzer, Jürgen ; Geishecker, Ingo ; Schröder, Philipp J. H.
Publisher:	Oldenburg : Univ., Inst. für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Subject:	open source software \| signaling \| wage differentials \| Open Source \| Open source \| Arbeitsangebot \| Labour supply \| Signalling \| IT-Berufe \| IT professionals \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Deutschland \| Germany

Extent:	Online-Ressource (30 S.)
Series:	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Diskussionspapiere / V. - Oldenburg : Univ., ZDB-ID 2406333-2.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzung: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/105009 [Handle]
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10010442768