Are nascent entrepreneurs "Jacks-of-all-trades"? : a test of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data

Joachim Wagner

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the "Jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an entrepreneur...

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Year of publication:	2006
Authors:	Wagner, Joachim
Published in:	Applied economics. - Abingdon : Routledge, ISSN 0003-6846, ZDB-ID 280176-0. - Vol. 38.2006, 20 (10.11.), p. 2415-2419
Subject:	Entrepreneurship \| Entrepreneurship approach \| Selbstständige \| Self-employed \| Persönlichkeitspsychologie \| Personality psychology \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Deutschland \| Germany \| Unternehmensgründung

Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal
Language:	English
Classification:	Berufe
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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