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

J. Wagner

This article 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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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Wagner, Joachim
Published in:	Applied economics letters. - Abingdon : Routledge, ISSN 1350-4851, ZDB-ID 1181036-1. - Vol. 10.2003, 11, p. 687-689
Subject:	Entrepreneurship \| Entrepreneurship approach \| Deutschland \| Germany \| Selbstständige \| Self-employed \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification
Description of contents:	Description [fox.leuphana.de]

Extent:	3 S
Type of publication:	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1080/1350485032000133273 [DOI]
Classification:	Unternehmensplanung, Unternehmenskontrolle ; Methoden und Techniken der Betriebswirtschaft
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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