In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of … roles increases the probability of becoming an entrepreneur. The intuition behind this proposition is that entrepreneurs …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …

The theory proposed below is that entrepreneurs are jacks-of-all-trades who may not excel in any one skill, but are … individuals with balanced skills are more likely than others to become entrepreneurs. The model provides implications for the … proportion of entrepreneurs by occupation, by income and yields a number of predictions for the distribution of income by …

, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice … educational attainments of potential entrepreneurs do thus not suffice to increase the number of female business starters. …

one of the most prominent determinants of entrepreneurship - education - and approximately three times larger than …

personal contacts with a young entrepreneur and the regional share of nascent entrepreneurs. …

This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts … Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM). We use a version of the probit model that takes care of the regional stratification of the data, and …

Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that … workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average … income with all but undergraduate level of education. However, random effects and matching models suggest that entrepreneurs …