Many scholars emphasize that Immigrant Entrepreneurship (IE) is an effective mechanism of improving the economy of ethnic communities and their integration with the host country. Even though immigrant entrepreneurs are crucial for economic development, much attention is not paid to immigrant...

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...