This articles identifies the specific explanatory variables of self-employment prevalent among ethnocultural groups. An interdiciplinary literature riview results in identification of several schools of thought suggesting our spheres of influences: individual or self, the ethnocultural environment, the circumtances in society, and a combination of these. A conceptual framework is then developed, identifying two types of self-employment, orthodox entrepreneurship and reactive self-employment. A model link defferents ethnocultural communities (from empirical student in the literature) to the explanatory variables realtive to specific ethnocultural groups.