Giving it away for free? The nature of job-market signaling by open-source software developers

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Orman, Wafa Hakim ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; FLOSS; Free software; Job market signaling; Open source software; Open source software developers; Supermodularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749146228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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