Jacques Poot
Biographic Data
| ID | 193490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacques Poot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacques |
| FAMILY NAME | Poot |
| SIGNATURE | POOT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4735-9283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A review and evaluation of internal migration forecasting models
Recognizing that internal migration is an important source of error in population projections, we evaluate 21 forecasts from five classes of methods: (1) average of the most recent flows; (2) time-series econometric models with and without external factors; (3) machine-learning-based gradient boosting models; (4) multiplicative component and gravity-type models; and (5) average of all forecasts. We forecast bilateral interstate migration flows in…
Modelling and Forecasting Interregional Migration for Multiregional Population Projections
In this paper we focus on modelling and forecasting gross interregional migration in a way that can be embedded within multiregional population projections. We revisit, and apply, a family of spatial interaction models first formulated during the 1970s. The classic gravity model—in which migration is positively related to the populations of sending and receiving areas, but inversely related to various types of spatial friction associated with mig…
Who partners up? Homogamy and income inequality in New Zealand cities
This paper examines the impact of homogamy on the distribution of household income in New Zealand at the national level and across different sized cities. We focus on homogamy by age, education, hours worked, employment status, and migration status. We present a new index of homogamy that takes account of maximum potential homogamy. Our index is less sensitive to categories with small population shares than the commonly used concentration ratios.…
Labor Markets, Migration, and Mobility: Essays in Honor of Jacques Poot
How Robust Is the Evidence on the Impact of Diasporas on Institutional Quality in Home Countries
This paper conducts a robustness analysis of the impact of diasporas on institutional quality in home countries. Using the Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC), we attest that the home country institutional development role of diasporas found in the literature is robust to modifications in terms of the dataset, the measurement of diasporas and the instrumental variable procedures used in our cross‐sectional and panel analyses. The nove…
Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific
Crossing Borders: Regional and Urban Perspectives on International Migration
Regional and urban perspectives on international migration - an overview, Cees Gorter et al. Part A Theory and evidence - an economic perspective: Migration, economic integration and regional growth, Peter Fischer Welfare effects of immigration in the presence of public goods - a case for entrance fees? Nadine Leiner Causes of international migration - a survey, Thomas Bauer, Klaus Zimmermann The impact of immigration on labour markets and urban …
Local Institutional Quality and Return Migration: Evidence from Viet Nam
This article examines the link between local institutional quality in the home country and locational choices of international return migrants. We scrutinize the locational choices of Vietnamese return migrants to the south central and the south regions of Viet Nam in 2014. Binary and multinomial regression models are fitted to identify the influence of migrants’ individual attributes and the characteristics of regional destinations within Viet N…
Spatial impacts of the creation of Brasília: A natural experiment
Using data spanning 70 years (1939-2008), we examine whether Kubitschek's planned creation of Brasília and its associated highway network had its intended effect of spreading development from Brazil's coast to its interior. Specifically, we test whether the spatial structure of the country's urban population and per capita GDP changed as a result of Brasília's inauguration in 1960. Uniquely amongst studies of Brasília's impacts, we use a 'spatial…
Residential assimilation of immigrants: A cohort approach
This paper demonstrates the importance of distinguishing between successive arrival cohorts when assessing the impact of residential assimilation of immigrants on the spatial distribution of the population. We consider three cohorts of immigrants from each of five countries of birth entering Auckland, New Zealand, between 1991 and 2006. The paper tracks and compares changes in spatial isolation, segregation and autocorrelation for these cohorts o…
How diverse can measures of segregation be? Results from Monte Carlo simulations of an agent-based model
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally defined groups-such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes-have been designed to capture just one feature of this distribution. The strengths and weaknesses of such measures under varying demographic, geographic and behavioral conditions can only be comprehensively assessed empirically. This has been…
Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch
Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual's education to the 'average' education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants and the native born. Using data for New Zealand, which has an immigration policy that favours skilled immigrants, we find that this approach leads one to concl…
The elusive effects of workplace diversity on innovation
Does Cultural Diversity of Migrant Employees Affect Innovation
Increasing international labor migration has important effects on the workforce composition of firms in all migrant-receiving countries. The consequences of these changes for firm performance have attracted growing attention in recent years. In this paper, we focus explicitly on the impact of cultural diversity among migrant employees on the innovativeness of firms. We briefly synthesize empirical evidence from a range of contexts across Europe, …
Meta‐analysis of Economics Research Reporting Guidelines
Meta‐regression analysis (MRA) can provide objective and comprehensive summaries of economics research. Their use has grown rapidly over the last few decades. To improve transparency and to raise the quality of MRA, the meta‐analysis of economics research‐network (MAER‐Net) has created the below reporting guidelines. Future meta‐analyses in economics will be expected to follow these guidelines or give valid reasons why a meta‐analysis must deviat…
Living and working in ethnic enclaves: English Language proficiency of immigrants in US metropolitan areas
Homeownership, Social Capital and Satisfaction with Local Government
Prior studies suggest that homeownership positively impacts on social capital formation. However, many studies find it difficult to control adequately for selection effects in the form of factors, some of which may be unobserved, that encourage both homeownership and investment in social capital by households. A biennial survey conducted in New Zealand cities provides data that enable the control of such selection effects with propensity score ma…
The impact of cultural diversity on firm innovation: Evidence from Dutch micro-data
An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the regional level, but the impacts at firm level are less well known. Merging data from four different sources, provided by Statistics Netherlands, we construct and analyze a unique linked employer-employee micro …
Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons
The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many OECD countries in recent decades has prompted considerable research on the socioeconomic impacts of immigration. Among this research activity there have been a number of econometric studies conducted since the 1990s that suggest that immigration has a statistically significant positive impact on merchandise trade, starting with Gould (1994). Such a result is theoretically plausible because o…
Lessons from stochastic small-area population projections: The case of Waikato subregions in New Zealand
Roles of Local and Newcomer Entrepreneurs in Rural Development: A Comparative Meta-analytic Study
Roles of local and newcomer entrepreneurs in rural development: a comparative meta-analytic study, Regional Studies. Early studies of rural development suggested that newcomer rural entrepreneurs are important agents of change and responsible for new spatial development, but more recent research has concluded that there is no difference between newcomer and local rural entrepreneurs in this respect. Much of this literature is based on qualitative…
The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Metaanalytic evidence
Trans-Tasman Migration, Transnationalism and Economic Development in Australasia
This paper focuses on migration between Australia and New Zealand, which has exhibited a strong, but cyclical, net movement towards Australia since the late 1960s. A long-term historical perspective is taken. Trans-Tasman migration is also compared with inter-island migration within New Zealand. It is argued that differential economic development, driven by forces of globalization, agglomeration and technological change, has been primarily respon…
Migration and Human Capital
Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods for analysing and forecasting migration, as well as on the basic trends, driving factors and institutional settings behind migration processes
Migration, relationship capital and international travel: Theory and evidence
In this article we consider how international migration is related to the frequency and duration of trips to the home country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a replenishment of the depleted relationship capital with family and friends back home, but these trips incur travel costs and foregone earnings. Given plausible assumptions about the depreciation and replenishme…
The impact of cultural diversity on firm innovation: Evidence from Dutch micro-data
An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the regional level, but the impacts at firm level are less well known. Merging data from four different sources, provided by Statistics Netherlands, we construct and analyze a unique linked employer-employee micro …
Roles of Local and Newcomer Entrepreneurs in Rural Development: A Comparative Meta-analytic Study
Roles of local and newcomer entrepreneurs in rural development: a comparative meta-analytic study, Regional Studies. Early studies of rural development suggested that newcomer rural entrepreneurs are important agents of change and responsible for new spatial development, but more recent research has concluded that there is no difference between newcomer and local rural entrepreneurs in this respect. Much of this literature is based on qualitative…
Crossing boundaries and borders: Regional science advances in migration modelling
Living and working in ethnic enclaves: English Language proficiency of immigrants in US metropolitan areas
Lessons from stochastic small-area population projections: The case of Waikato subregions in New Zealand
Homeownership, Social Capital and Satisfaction with Local Government
Prior studies suggest that homeownership positively impacts on social capital formation. However, many studies find it difficult to control adequately for selection effects in the form of factors, some of which may be unobserved, that encourage both homeownership and investment in social capital by households. A biennial survey conducted in New Zealand cities provides data that enable the control of such selection effects with propensity score ma…
The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Metaanalytic evidence
Migration, relationship capital and international travel: Theory and evidence
In this article we consider how international migration is related to the frequency and duration of trips to the home country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a replenishment of the depleted relationship capital with family and friends back home, but these trips incur travel costs and foregone earnings. Given plausible assumptions about the depreciation and replenishme…
Local Institutional Quality and Return Migration: Evidence from Viet Nam
This article examines the link between local institutional quality in the home country and locational choices of international return migrants. We scrutinize the locational choices of Vietnamese return migrants to the south central and the south regions of Viet Nam in 2014. Binary and multinomial regression models are fitted to identify the influence of migrants’ individual attributes and the characteristics of regional destinations within Viet N…
Does Cultural Diversity of Migrant Employees Affect Innovation
Increasing international labor migration has important effects on the workforce composition of firms in all migrant-receiving countries. The consequences of these changes for firm performance have attracted growing attention in recent years. In this paper, we focus explicitly on the impact of cultural diversity among migrant employees on the innovativeness of firms. We briefly synthesize empirical evidence from a range of contexts across Europe, …
Trans-Tasman Migration, Transnationalism and Economic Development in Australasia
This paper focuses on migration between Australia and New Zealand, which has exhibited a strong, but cyclical, net movement towards Australia since the late 1960s. A long-term historical perspective is taken. Trans-Tasman migration is also compared with inter-island migration within New Zealand. It is argued that differential economic development, driven by forces of globalization, agglomeration and technological change, has been primarily respon…
A System Approach to Modelling the Inter‐urban Exchange of Workers in New Zealand
Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch
Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual's education to the 'average' education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants and the native born. Using data for New Zealand, which has an immigration policy that favours skilled immigrants, we find that this approach leads one to concl…
A Perspective from the Antipodes: Demographic Changes and their Economic Impacts in New Zealand
The macroeconomics of fertility in small open economies: A test of the Becker-Barro model for The Netherlands and New Zealand
Residential assimilation of immigrants: A cohort approach
This paper demonstrates the importance of distinguishing between successive arrival cohorts when assessing the impact of residential assimilation of immigrants on the spatial distribution of the population. We consider three cohorts of immigrants from each of five countries of birth entering Auckland, New Zealand, between 1991 and 2006. The paper tracks and compares changes in spatial isolation, segregation and autocorrelation for these cohorts o…
The elusive effects of workplace diversity on innovation
Adaptation of Migrants in the New Zealand Labor Market
This article addresses economic aspects of New Zealand immigration during the 1980s. General features are overall net emigration coinciding with high levels of immigration from Asia and Pacific Island countries. Earnings by years in New Zealand profiles for immigrants with selected occupations are steeper for Pacific Island-born males than for other immigrant groups. Although there are few data, there is some evidence that profiles differ between…
Adaptation of Migrants in the New Zealand Labor Market
A System Approach to Modelling the Inter‐urban Exchange of Workers in New Zealand
International Migration and the New Zealand Economy. A Long-Run Perspective
This study focuses on the macroeconomic sectoral and labor market consequences of international migration in New Zealand with particular emphasis on the relationship between migration and long-term economic trends. The Joanna model of the New Zealand economy is used to estimate the effects of changes in net migration on prices quantities and macroeconomic aggregates such as gross domestic product after markets have had time to adjust up to the ye…
Adaptation of Migrants in the New Zealand Labor Market
This article addresses economic aspects of New Zealand immigration during the 1980s. General features are overall net emigration coinciding with high levels of immigration from Asia and Pacific Island countries. Earnings by years in New Zealand profiles for immigrants with selected occupations are steeper for Pacific Island-born males than for other immigrant groups. Although there are few data, there is some evidence that profiles differ between…
Adaptation of Migrants in the New Zealand Labor Market
The Role of Trans-Tasman Migration in Forecasting the New Zealand Population
Population growth in New Zealand is rather volatile. International migration is the main cause of this. However, as is common in many countries, official population projections are based on a range of exogenously-set fixed levels of net migration. This article argues that, for the short to medium term, such projections can be improved upon by adopting econometric methodologies which take explicitly into account the demographic-economic two-way in…
Population Ageing, Migration and Social Expenditure
The macroeconomics of fertility in small open economies: A test of the Becker-Barro model for The Netherlands and New Zealand
Crossing boundaries and borders: Regional science advances in migration modelling
A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages: The Effect Of Immigration On Wages
In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socioeconomic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies about the impact of immigration on host labour markets have been undertaken. Borjas (2003, The labor demand curve is downward sloping: reexamining the impact of immigration on the labor market. Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(4): 1335–1374) noted that the estimated …
Labor mobility and the world economy
A Perspective from the Antipodes: Demographic Changes and their Economic Impacts in New Zealand
Migration and Human Capital
Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods for analysing and forecasting migration, as well as on the basic trends, driving factors and institutional settings behind migration processes
Migration, relationship capital and international travel: Theory and evidence
In this article we consider how international migration is related to the frequency and duration of trips to the home country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a replenishment of the depleted relationship capital with family and friends back home, but these trips incur travel costs and foregone earnings. Given plausible assumptions about the depreciation and replenishme…
The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: Metaanalytic evidence
Trans-Tasman Migration, Transnationalism and Economic Development in Australasia
This paper focuses on migration between Australia and New Zealand, which has exhibited a strong, but cyclical, net movement towards Australia since the late 1960s. A long-term historical perspective is taken. Trans-Tasman migration is also compared with inter-island migration within New Zealand. It is argued that differential economic development, driven by forces of globalization, agglomeration and technological change, has been primarily respon…
Lessons from stochastic small-area population projections: The case of Waikato subregions in New Zealand
Roles of Local and Newcomer Entrepreneurs in Rural Development: A Comparative Meta-analytic Study
Roles of local and newcomer entrepreneurs in rural development: a comparative meta-analytic study, Regional Studies. Early studies of rural development suggested that newcomer rural entrepreneurs are important agents of change and responsible for new spatial development, but more recent research has concluded that there is no difference between newcomer and local rural entrepreneurs in this respect. Much of this literature is based on qualitative…
Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons
The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many OECD countries in recent decades has prompted considerable research on the socioeconomic impacts of immigration. Among this research activity there have been a number of econometric studies conducted since the 1990s that suggest that immigration has a statistically significant positive impact on merchandise trade, starting with Gould (1994). Such a result is theoretically plausible because o…
Meta‐analysis of Economics Research Reporting Guidelines
Meta‐regression analysis (MRA) can provide objective and comprehensive summaries of economics research. Their use has grown rapidly over the last few decades. To improve transparency and to raise the quality of MRA, the meta‐analysis of economics research‐network (MAER‐Net) has created the below reporting guidelines. Future meta‐analyses in economics will be expected to follow these guidelines or give valid reasons why a meta‐analysis must deviat…
Living and working in ethnic enclaves: English Language proficiency of immigrants in US metropolitan areas
Homeownership, Social Capital and Satisfaction with Local Government
Prior studies suggest that homeownership positively impacts on social capital formation. However, many studies find it difficult to control adequately for selection effects in the form of factors, some of which may be unobserved, that encourage both homeownership and investment in social capital by households. A biennial survey conducted in New Zealand cities provides data that enable the control of such selection effects with propensity score ma…
The impact of cultural diversity on firm innovation: Evidence from Dutch micro-data
An important question for firms and policy makers is whether the recruitment of foreign workers can boost innovation. Migration studies have demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the regional level, but the impacts at firm level are less well known. Merging data from four different sources, provided by Statistics Netherlands, we construct and analyze a unique linked employer-employee micro …
Does Cultural Diversity of Migrant Employees Affect Innovation
Increasing international labor migration has important effects on the workforce composition of firms in all migrant-receiving countries. The consequences of these changes for firm performance have attracted growing attention in recent years. In this paper, we focus explicitly on the impact of cultural diversity among migrant employees on the innovativeness of firms. We briefly synthesize empirical evidence from a range of contexts across Europe, …
The elusive effects of workplace diversity on innovation
Residential assimilation of immigrants: A cohort approach
This paper demonstrates the importance of distinguishing between successive arrival cohorts when assessing the impact of residential assimilation of immigrants on the spatial distribution of the population. We consider three cohorts of immigrants from each of five countries of birth entering Auckland, New Zealand, between 1991 and 2006. The paper tracks and compares changes in spatial isolation, segregation and autocorrelation for these cohorts o…
Economics (29 works) · Geography (22 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Demographic economics (17 works) · Economic geography (15 works) · Population (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (12 works) · Demography (11 works)