Vocational Services in Soviet Jewish Resettlement: The Challenge for the Nineties

Publication Date: January 1990

Publisher: Conference of Jewish Communal Service (U.S.)

Author(s): Mark Handelman; Alfred P. Miller

Research Area: Labor; Population and demographics

Keywords: Soviet Jewry; Immigration; Employment

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Given the changes in the American economy and the characteristics of the recently arrived Soviet immigrants, the traditional reliance on a strategy of direct placement into employment may be dysfunctional. Greater emphasis on economic development, innovative networking initiatives and specific vocational training approaches should result in higher placement rates and long-term job retention.