Martin Ruhs

Martin Ruhs is University Lecturer in Political Economy at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, and Senior Researcher at COMPAS. Martin is also an Associate Member of the Department of Economics, the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and the Blavatnik School of Government.

Martin's research focuses on the economics and politics of international labour migration, with a strong international comparative dimension. Recent books include The Price of Rights: Regulating International Labor Migration (Princeton University Press 2013, www.priceofrights.com) and Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (co-edited with Bridget Anderson, Oxford University Press, 2010 and 2012).

Martin has provided policy analysis and advice for various national governments and international institutions including the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the European Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the European Union. In 2008-09 he was Specialist Advisor to an inquiry by the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords into the economic impacts of immigration. During 2009-12, he was the first Director Oxford University’s Migration Observatory. Martin is currently a member of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), an independent body of five academic economists tasked to advise the UK government on labour immigration policy.