Next year in Jerusalem ... or in cologne? Labour market integration of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany in the 1990s

European Sociological Review

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-168

  Cohen, Yinon ^a   Kogan, Irena ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 34147190938     PISSN: 02667215     EISSN: 14682672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcl026     Document Type: Article

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