Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data

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Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data

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Wagner, Joachim () (University of Lueneburg, HWWA and IZA Bonn)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 592.

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Date of creation: Oct 2002
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- J. Wagner, 2003. "Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 10(11), pages 687-689, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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