Jordy Meekes

Jordy Meekes is a Research Fellow (Assistant Professor) in the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic & Social Research at the University of Melbourne since September 2018. He is part of the Labour Economics and Social Policy Program. Jordy is a research affiliate of the IZA, Bonn (Germany) and a research fellow of the LCC (Australia). Prior to joining the Melbourne Institute, Jordy did his PhD in Economics and his Research Master's in Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). During his PhD, Jordy was a Short-Stay Visiting Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management (US) and he did a research project in collaboration with the temporary work and human resource consulting services company Randstad Holding.

His PhD is in applied microeconomics at the intersection of labour economics with spatial economics. He has used administrative data sets and applied micro econometric models to answer research questions related to workers' labour market outcomes and housing outcomes across regional areas. Jordy's research focuses on job loss, local labour markets, gender gaps, COVID-19, commuting, flow-based clustering, agglomeration economies and the urban wage premium.

Research Interests

Applied Economics; Labour Economics; Spatial Economics; Housing Economics

Companies

• Research Fellow (Assistant Professor) University of Melbourne (2018)
• PHD Candidate Utrecht University (2014 — 2018)
• Data Scientist Randstad (2017 — 2018)
• Teaching Assistant Universiteit Utrecht (2013 — 2017)
• Visiting Fellow MIT Sloan School of Management (2016 — 2016)
• Teacher Lyceo (2010 — 2013)

Education

• Bachelor of Science - BS Utrecht University (2009 — 2012)
• Master of Science - MS Utrecht University (2012 — 2014)
• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Universiteit Utrecht (2014 — 2019)