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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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...

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack …

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …

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