Mahmoud Meskoub
Consultant/Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), Erasmus University
Mahmood Messkoub (PhD Econs, University of London) is currently based at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, NL) and working as part of a research consortium of EU and African universities on an EU funded research project on migration. He has researched and taught economics of development, social policy and population (mobility/migration, age structure and ageing) at universities of London (Queen Mary), Leeds and Erasmus (ISS). His current research interests are in the areas of economics of: social policy and population ageing, migration and universal approach to social provisioning. His recent publications are related to social policy, poverty and employment policies, cash transfers and evaluation of unpaid household work (based on Time Use surveys). He has acted as a consultant to ESCWA, ILO and the UN (DESA, UNFPA).
Areas of Interest:
- Macroeconomics
- Labor and human resources
- Social policy
- Migration
Education:
- PhD, Economics, Queen Mary (University of London), 1986
- MA, Economics, University of Leicester, 1977
- BA, Economics, Shahid Beheshti University (formerly the National University of Iran), 1975
Experience:
- Senior Lecturer, (Retired 21 February 2020), Internatinal Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus Univeristy of Rotterdam, Jan. 07 – Feb. 2020
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Population Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Iran, Sept. – Dec. 2011
- Lecturer, Leeds University Business School , University of Leeds, Oct. 1988-Dec. 2006
Latest Publications:
- ‘Social Policy in the MENA,’ in H. Hakimian, (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Middle East Economy. London: Routledge Publishers. Chapter 17. (2020)
- 'Trends, Determinants and The Implications of Population Aging in Iran', with N. Mehri and S. Kunkel, Ageing International. 05 March. Pp. 1-17. DOI 10.1007/s12126-020-09364-z (2020)
- ‘Population aging and welfare of the old in Iran,’ in Frank J. Whittington, Suzanne, R. Kunkel and Kate De Medeiros (eds.) Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course. Second Edition. Springer Publishing Company. Pp. 82-90. (Coauthor with Nader Mehri) (2019)
