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

Joachim Wagner ()

No 592, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Germany; entrepreneurship; jack-of-all-trades theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2002-10
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Published - published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2003, 10 (11), 687-689

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