| dc.creator |
Wagner, Joachim |
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| dc.date |
2003 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T07:08:58Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T07:08:58Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20147 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:372808107 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20147 |
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| dc.description |
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. The intuition behind this proposition is that entrepreneurs must have sufficient knowledge in a variety of areas to put together the many ingredients needed for survival and success in a business, while for paid employees it suffices and pays to be a specialist in the field demanded by the job taken. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the sample into account. The results illustrate the statistical significance and economic importance of the jack-of-all-trades theory. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
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| dc.relation |
IZA Discussion paper series 911 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
R12 |
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| dc.subject |
J23 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
entrepreneurship |
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| dc.subject |
jack-of-all-trades theory |
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| dc.subject |
rare events logit |
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| dc.subject |
Germany |
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| dc.subject |
Unternehmer |
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| dc.subject |
Selbständige |
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| dc.subject |
Persönlichkeitspsychologie |
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| dc.subject |
Schätzung |
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| dc.subject |
Deutschland |
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| dc.title |
Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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