Gary Fields is a Professor of Economics at Cornell University. David Margolis is Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Paris. Tim Gindling is a Professor of Economics at University of Maryland. More than half of all workers in the developing world are self-employed, mainly in agriculture. But unlike in the developed world, self-employment is typically because of constraints (like a lack of available wage jobs) – not by choice.
