AUT - Dr Geoff Perry
Dr Geoff Perry
Job Title
- Associate Dean – Development
- Director - Postgraduate Programmes
- Director - Centre for Executive Education
- Director - Economy Institute (NZ)
Qualifications
- BA in Geography and History
- MA in Geography
- Postgraduate Diploma in Social Sciences (Distinction) in Economics
- Diploma in Commerce in Economics
- MPhil (Honours) in Economics
- PhD in Economics
Areas of Research Expertise
- Labour Economics
- Economic Evaluation
- Parametric and Non-parametric methods
Biography
Geoff has had several management roles at departmental and faculty level in the Business School. As Associate Dean Development, Geoff is responsible for strategic development and management of projects and activities, such as the Executive Education programmes and the Business School's scholarships portfolio.
Geoff is Director of the Business School's Centre for Executive Education leading the centre's team in the development and maintenance of executive programmes, both nationally and internationally. These programmes currently include those delivered to ANZ, the Navy, the Auckland Blues, NZ Warriors, Shandong Provincial Government from China and to business counsellors as part of the APEC Certification provision.
Geoff is also Programme Director for Postgraduate programmes, including the Master of Business, Master of Professional Business Studies and Bachelor of Business Honours.
His research interests are in labour economics with particular emphasis on the economic evaluation of interventions.
Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching
- Labour Economics
- Economic Evaluation
- International Trade Theory and Policy
Interests in Research Supervision
- Economic Evaluation
- Labour market policy
- Labour Economics
Current Research
- Evaluation of active labour market policy
- Panel data estimation techniques
- Return on investment
Selected Publications
(from 2006-2007)
- (with T. Maloney), “Economic evaluation of training opportunities programme in New Zealand“, presented at Australian Labour Market Research Workshop, Perth, 2007.
- (with T.Maloney),"Evaluating active labour market programmes in New Zealand“, International Journal of Manpower, 27 (1), 7-29, 2007.
- (with Tim Maloney), “Economic evaluation of three New Zealand active labour market programmes“,presented at the International Conference of the German Association of Political Economy, Nurnberg, 2007.
- “Are business start-up subsidies effective for the unemployed: Evaluation of Enterprise allowance“, published in the proceedings of Work, Pensions and Labour Economics (WPEG) Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 2006.
- (with T. Maloney), "Evaluating active labour market policies in New Zealand - what works and what does not“, presented at New Zealand Association of Economics Conference, Wellington, 2006.
Contact
E-mail: geoff.perry@aut.ac.nz
Phone: +64 9 921 9999 - ext: 5724
Fax: +64 9 921 9876