Jacques Poot
University of Waikato, Affiliate
Jacques Poot is Professor of Population Economics at the University of Waikato.
Jacques studied econometrics at the VU University Amsterdam and has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington, where he held various academic positions between 1979 and 2003. He was also Foreign Professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan (1994-97 and 2002). He is a Correspondent (Honorary Fellow) of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and an External Research Fellow of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) in London.
Professor Poot is also, until 2010, member of the Spinoza Commission which awards annually the highest scientific prize across all disciplines in The Netherlands. His research interests include all aspects of the economics of population (such as migration, fertility, labour force, and ageing) and especially the geographical dimension of these topics.
Publications
- Karagedikli, Ozer; David C. Maré and Jacques Poot. 2001. "Disparities and Despair: Changes in Regional Income Distributions in New Zealand 1981-96," Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 6:3, pp. 323-47.
- Karagedikli, Özer; David C. Maré and Jacques Poot. 2003. "Description and Analysis of Changes in New Zealand Regional Income Distributions, 1981-1996" in The State, Economic Development and Ethnic Co-existence in Malaysia and New Zealand CEDR, E. Gomez and R. Stephens, Eds. Kuala Lumpar: University of Malaya.
Papps, Kerry; Philip S. Morrison and Jacques Poot. "Wages, Employment, Labour Turnover and the Accessibility of Local Labour Markets," Labour Economics 13:5, pp. 639-66.
Poot, Jacques. 2007. "Twenty years of econometric research on trans-Tasman migration," Motu Public Policy Seminar, November.
Poot, Jacques. 2009. "Trans-Tasman Migration, Transnationalism and Economic Development in Australasia," Motu Working Paper 09-05.
Roskruge, Matthew; Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot. 2010. "Social capital and regional social infrastructure investment: Evidence from New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 10-03.
Cochrane, William, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann & Jacques Poot. "The Spatial Impact of Local Infrastructural Investment in New Zealand". Paper presented to North American Regional Science Conference, November 2009.
Cochrane, William; Arthur Grimes; Phillip McCann and Jacques Poot. 2010. "The Spatial Impact of Local Infrastructural Investment in New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 10-12.
Roskruge, Matthew, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann & Jacques Poot. 2011. "Homeownership and Social Capital in New Zealand," Motu Working Paper 11-02
Roskruge, Matthew, Arthur Grimes, Philip McCann and Jacques Poot. 2011. "Immigrant Integration and Social Capital Formation," New Zealand Association of Economists Annual Conference, Wellington, 29 June-1 July 2011. Available online from http://www.nzae.org.nz/conferences/2011/programme.html.
- Poot, Jacques, and Steven Stillman. 2010. "The Importance of Heterogeneity when Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand," CReAM Discussion Paper 23/10, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, London.