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

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 592

Classification
Wirtschaft
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Labor Demand
Subject
entrepreneurship
jack-of-all-trades theory
Germany
Unternehmer
Selbständige
Qualifikation
Schätzung
Deutschland
Sozialkompetenz

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Wagner, Joachim
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2002

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Wagner, Joachim
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2002

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