Caceres and Caceres (2017a) found that the main determinants of self-employment in a sample of six Latin American countries were the economic growth rate and the level of remittances as a percentage of GDP. These two variables will be considered here —along with the change in the manufacturing sector’s share of GDP (D (Manu)) and a qualitative variable (Qualil) representing the drop in GDP in 2009—to be the determinants of self-employment in El Salvador. The results are shown in table 2.