Martin Ruhs

Martin Ruhs is senior researcher and Director of the Migration Observatory at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at Oxford University. He is co-author of the book Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy, (OUP)

Britain’s growing reliance on migrant labour: inevitability or policy choice?

What drives Britain’s increasing reliance on migrant workers? Public policies have often incentivised – and in some cases left little choice for – individual employers to respond to shortages through the employment of migrant workers, say Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson

By Bridget Anderson and Martin Ruhs

/ 6 Mar 2011