%0 Report %A Wagner, Joachim %T Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data %D 2002 %8 2002 Oct %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 592 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp592 %X 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. %K Germany %K entrepreneurship %K jack-of-all-trades theory