| The price of rights: Regulating international labor migration M Ruhs Princeton University Press, 2013 | 724 | 2013 |
| Numbers vs. Rights: Trade-Offs and Guest Worker Programs 1 M Ruhs, P Martin Migrants and Rights, 321-338, 2017 | 504 | 2017 |
| Who needs migrant workers?: labour shortages, immigration, and public policy M Ruhs, B Anderson Oxford University Press, 2012 | 471 | 2012 |
| Fair enough? Central and East European migrants in low-wage employment in the UK B Anderson, M Ruhs, B Rogaly, S Spencer Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2006 | 456 | 2006 |
| The potential of temporary migration programmes in future international migration policy M Ruhs Int'l Lab. Rev. 145, 7, 2006 | 359 | 2006 |
| Semi‐compliance and illegality in migrant labour markets: an analysis of migrants, employers and the state in the UK M Ruhs, B Anderson Population, space and place 16 (3), 195-211, 2010 | 271 | 2010 |
| Migrants’ lives beyond the workplace S Spencer, M Ruhs, B Anderson, B Rogaly The experiences of central and east Europeans in the UK. York: Joseph …, 2007 | 260 | 2007 |
| World migration report 2018 M McAuliffe, M Ruhs Geneva: International Organization for Migration, 1-32, 2017 | 234 | 2017 |
| Migrant workers: who needs them? A framework for the analysis of staff shortages, immigration and public policy B Anderson, M Ruhs Who needs migrant workers, 15-52, 2010 | 186 | 2010 |
| Researching illegality and labour migration B Anderson, M Ruhs Population, space and place 16 (3), 175-179, 2010 | 172 | 2010 |
| Fair enough B Anderson, M Ruhs, B Rogaly, S Spencer Central and East European migrants in low-wage employment in the UK. Joseph …, 2006 | 161 | 2006 |
| Managing the Immigration and Employment of non-EU Nationals in Ireland M Ruhs Policy Institute at Trinity College Dublin, 2005 | 142 | 2005 |
| Temporary Foreign Worker Programmes, Policies, Adverse Consequences, and the Need to Make Them Work M Ruhs International Labour Office, Social Protection Sector, International …, 2003 | 138 | 2003 |
| The ethics of labor immigration policy M Ruhs, HJ Chang International Organization 58 (1), 69-102, 2004 | 136 | 2004 |
| The labour market effects of immigration M Ruhs, C Vargas-Silva The migration observatory, 2015 | 130 | 2015 |
| Ireland: From rapid immigration to recession M Ruhs, E Quinn Migration Information Source, 1-12, 2009 | 115 | 2009 |
| Greasing the wheels of the flexible labour market: East European labour immigration in the UK M Ruhs Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, 2006 | 103 | 2006 |
| Migrant rights, immigration policy and human development M Ruhs Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 11 (2), 259-279, 2010 | 102 | 2010 |
| Semi-compliance in the migrant labour market M Ruhs, B Anderson COMPAS Working Paper, 2006 | 101 | 2006 |
| Openness, Skills and Rights: An empirical analysis of labour immigration programmes in 46 high-and middle-income countries M Ruhs Center on Migration, Policy and Society Working Paper 88, 2011 | 93 | 2011 |
