The Jack-of-All-Trades Entrepreneur: Innate Talent or Acquired Skill?
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- Silva, Olmo, 2007. "The Jack-of-All-Trades entrepreneur: Innate talent or acquired skill?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 97(2), pages 118-123, November.
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Keywords
skills; occupational choice; entrepreneurship;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2006-09-16 (Business Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2006-09-16 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HRM-2006-09-16 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-KNM-2006-09-16 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
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