Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

Joachim Wagner

doi:10.1080/1350485032000133273

Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

Joachim Wagner

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Abstract

This article tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

Original language	English
Journal	Applied Economics Letters
Volume	10
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	687-689
Number of pages	3
ISSN	1350-4851
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1350485032000133273
Publication status	Published - 15.09.2003

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The data used in this study were kindly provided by the Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung, Universitaet zu Koeln. The author alone is responsible for all computations and interpretations of results. Financial support from the German Science Foundation under grant No. Wa 610/2-1/2 is gratefully acknowledged.

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Economics

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Economics and Econometrics

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Testing Lazear's Jack-of-all-trades: view of entrepreneurship with German micro data
Wagner, J., 2002, Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 6 p. (Arbeitsbericht; no. 277).
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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

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