JOB-SATISFACTION AMONG ETHNIC-MINORITIES IN THE NETHERLANDS

This article examines the question of whether ethnic minorities have a lower level of job satisfaction compared with Dutch colleagues. A stu dy was conducted among 1693 civil servants (of whom 681 belonged to an ethnic minority) in the city of Rotterdam. After controlling for sex, age, function-level, and type of municipal service, the Dutch scored significantly higher on general job satisfaction and also on the dimen sions 'work', 'colleagues', 'wage', and 'superior', but not on the sub scale 'promotion'. The differences in terms of variance explained, how ever, were very small (highest value 3.2%). Considering the generally less favourable working conditions for ethnic minorities, the results suggest that job satisfaction among ethnic minorities can take a diffe rent form in comparison with Dutch employees.