Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/266603 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 386
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
Digital tools potentially enable remote collaboration. Analyzing how some 191 thousand software developers in the United States collaborate on the largest online opensource code repository platform, I find 79.8% of users clustering in only ten economic areas. Conditional on economic-area characteristics, colocated users collaborate about nine times as much as non-colocated users. Apart from this colocation effect, distance is not significantly related to collaboration among software developers. Comparison to social networks shows the colocation effect is weaker for software developers and relative connectedness probability remains at a much higher (stable) level with increasing distance. Software developer and social networks show no significant regional overlap.
Subjects: 
Geography
digitization
online
open-source
high-skilled
collaboration
JEL: 
L84
O18
O30
R32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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