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

Joachim Wagner

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

Joachim Wagner

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Abstract

This paper 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
Place of Publication	Lüneburg
Publisher	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2002

Research areas and keywords

Economics
Germany
entrepreneurship
jack-of-all-trades theory

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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data
Wagner, J., 15.09.2003, In: Applied Economics Letters. 10, 11, p. 687-689 3 p.
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Testing Lazear's Jack-of-all-trades: view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

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