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

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  • Wagner, Joachim

    (Leuphana University Lüneburg)

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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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  • Wagner, Joachim, 2002. "Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data," IZA Discussion Papers 592, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp592
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    Germany; entrepreneurship; jack-of-all-trades theory;
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    JEL classification:

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

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