dc.contributor.author | Wagner, Joachim | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-01T03:09:00Z | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-30T04:48:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-30T04:48:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/23938 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract:
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. | en |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.title | Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-all-trades?
A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data* | en |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | Applied Economics | de |
dc.source.volume | 38 | de |
dc.source.issue | 20 | de |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-239384 | de |
dc.date.modified | 2011-04-01T03:09:00Z | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | http://www.peerproject.eu/ | de |
internal.status | -1 | de |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.source.pageinfo | 2415-2419 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 21 | de |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500427783 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | en |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | de |
internal.identifier.licence | 7 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 2 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer | CERTAIN | |
internal.check.languageharmonizer | CERTAIN_RETAINED | |