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

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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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalApplied Economics Letters
Volume10
Issue number11
Pages (from-to)687-689
Number of pages3
ISSN1350-4851
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Publication statusPublished - 15.09.2003

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The data used in this study were kindly provided by the Zentralarchiv fuer Empirische Sozialforschung, Universitaet zu Koeln. The author alone is responsible for all computations and interpretations of results. Financial support from the German Science Foundation under grant No. Wa 610/2-1/2 is gratefully acknowledged.