Jacques Poot is the Emeritus Professor of Population Economics at Te Ngira Institute for Population Research, University of Waikato, New Zealand, since 2018. He is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Accounting, Finance, and Economics at the same university.

Before joining the University of Waikato in 2004, Jacques held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington—where he obtained his PhD in 1984—the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has also held visiting appointments at institutions such as the Australian National University, the East-West Center in Honolulu, and the University of London’s School of Advanced Study.

Jacques is a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Association of Economists, an elected Fellow of several international scientific organizations and recipient of the 2013 NZIER Economics Award. He has been a principal investigator in several large-scale, multidisciplinary research projects in both Europe and New Zealand. His research spans international and internal migration, the economics of cultural diversity, local labour markets, regional development, housing markets, and forecasting. He has also contributed to the advancement of methodologies for meta-analysis in social and economic impact assessment.

Jacques remains actively engaged in research at the intersection of economics, demography, and regional science, contributing to both academic scholarship and the evidence base for policy development.


He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2009.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17012
published online as 'Evidence of the effects of ethnic diversity, years of residence, and location on migrant bridging, bonding, and linking, social capital: a New Zealand synthesis' in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 29 June 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15510
published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2023, 29 (2), 155-184
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12402
published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11959
Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot
published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (3), 272-295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10945
Ngoc Thi Minh Tran, Michael P. Cameron, Jacques Poot
published as "How robust is the evidence on the impact of diasporas on institutional quality in home countries?" in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1), 126-152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10690
Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot
published in: U. Blien, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp & R. Stough (eds.), Modelling Aging and Migration Effects on Spatial Labor Markets, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10329
published in: Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2016, 36, 63-86
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9874
published in: H Westlund and JP Larsson (eds.), Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2016
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8782
published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot and J. Bakens (eds.), The Economics of Cultural Diversity, Edward Elgar, 2015
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