Jens Ruhose

Biographic Data

ID5868648
NAMEJens Ruhose
GIVEN NAMESJens
FAMILY NAMERuhose
SIGNATURERUHOSE J
AFFILIATIONSIfo Institute for Economic Research
ORCID0000-0002-6942-4448
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Why is the Roy–Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? Evidence from urban and rural Mexico

    Open AccessStefan Leopold, Jens Ruhose et al.ARTICLEWorld Economy2025

    The Roy–Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant‐sending) countries than in developed (migrant‐receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often contradicts this prediction, even when comparing migrants from different regions of the same country. Specifically, whilst Mexicans migrating to the United States from urban area…

  • Labour market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland – evidence from administrative data

    Open AccessStefan Denzler, Jens Ruhose et al.ARTICLEEconomics of Education Review2025

    This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labour market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labour market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences approach with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting. We find that training participation increases …

  • Academics’ Attitudes Toward Engaging in Public Discussions

    Open AccessVitus Püttmann, Jens Ruhose et al.ARTICLEResearch in Higher Education2023

    Growing demands and expectations on the side of policy makers and the public have changed the conditions for academics’ engagement in public discussions. At the same time, risks related to this engagement for the professional and even private lives of academics have become apparent. Conducting a survey experiment among 4091 tenured professors in Germany, we study how these conditions causally affect academics’ attitudes toward engaging. Consisten…

  • Can Mentoring Alleviate Family Disadvantage in Adolescence? A Field Experiment to Improve Labor Market Prospects

    Sven Resnjanskij, Jens Ruhose et al.ARTICLEJournal of Political Economy2023Cited by: 1References: 5

    We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor-market prospects of school- attending adolescents from disadvantaged families by offering them a university-student mentor. Our RCT investigates program effectiveness on three outcome dimensions that are highly predictive of adolescents' later labor-market success: math grades, patience/social skills, and labor-market orientation. For low-SES adolescents, the one-to-one mentoring increas…

  • The Selection of High-Skilled Emigrants

    Open AccessMatthias Parey, Jens Ruhose et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2017

    We measure selection among high-skilled emigrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to nonmigrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive selection to less equal countries reflects university quality and grades, and negative selection to more equal countries reflects university subject and gend…

  • Cultural biases in migration

    Open AccessOliver Falck, Alfred Lameli et al.ARTICLEPapers of the Regional Science…2016Cited by: 5References: 9

  • Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries

    Open AccessTim Krieger, Jens RuhoseARTICLEPublic Choice2013Cited by: 3References: 40