"This is a note on the immigrant representation in two forms of atypical employment in Sweden: self-employment and temporary agency work. The employment rate among non-western immigrants is substantially lower than among natives and using register data for the population in Sweden who were employed in 1999, we find that immigrants are over-represented in both these forms of atypical employment. Immigrants from Asia are over-represented in both forms of employment, whereas immigrants from South America are over-represented among temporary agency workers but underrepresented among the self-employed. These findings can be interpreted as an indication of that temporary agency work and self-employment are used as alternatives to regular employment by groups in which unemployment is high."

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