Emeritus Professor Poot's 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. He has had leadership roles in several large multi-institution research programmes, including on Capturing the Diversity Dividend of Aotearoa New Zealand (CaDDANZ); on the Economic Integration of Immigrants in New Zealand; on National and Regional Demographic Changes in New Zealand, and on Migrant Diversity and Regional Disparity in Europe.
Jacques Poot has been working in recent years particularly on international and internal migration, the economics of cultural diversity, local labour markets, regional development, housing markets, and forecasting. Furthermore, his work on social and economic impact assessment has led him to apply and further develop methodologies for meta-analysis: the systematic and quantitative synthesis of previous empirical research findings.
