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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data

J. Wagner University of Lueneburg, Institute of Economics, D-21332 Lueneburg, Germany Email: [email protected]
Pages 687-689 | Published online: 04 Jun 2010

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