David C Maré
Biographic Data
| ID | 5739944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David C Maré |
| GIVEN NAMES | David C |
| FAMILY NAME | Maré |
| SIGNATURE | MARÉ D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Motu Economic and Public Policy Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4716-2755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018
We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using detailed micro-data on 134 locations in New Zealand for the period 1976–2018. We find subtle temporal variation, with estimates of agglomeration economies peaking in 1991 and then falling by approximately 1 percentage point in the subsequent 15-years. Since 2006, however, estimates have remained broadly stable; the world has not been ge…
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.…
The Economic Consequences of Marital Separation for Parents in New Zealand
Marital separation, especially when dependent children are involved, is a significant and disruptive event that often involves considerable changes in living standards. This article uses a newly available dataset to provide, for the first time, estimates of the short- to medium-term economic impacts of marital separation for parents of dependent-aged children in New Zealand. Unlike most similar studies, which are based on relatively small samples…
Relatedness, complexity and local growth
We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment shares. Our approach recognizes variation in the extent of local specialization and adjusts for differences in data quality between cities. We use our measure to estimate activity and city complexity, and examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban employment growth in New Zealand. Relatedness and complexity ar…
Residential assimilation of immigrants
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…
Innovation and the local workforce
Agglomeration elasticities and firm heterogeneity
Defining areas and linking geographical data
This paper develops a match quality statistic to aid researchers in linking regional data that are available at inconsistent levels of aggregation. The match quality statistic developed in the paper allows researchers to make their own decisions regarding the trade‐off between specificity and completeness when choosing a basis for linking such data. We illustrate this statistic with the example of a New Zealand labour economics research project t…
Understanding changes in Māori incomes and income inequality 1997–2003
Understanding New Zealand's Changing Income Distribution, 1983–1998
This paper analyses income distribution changes in New Zealand between 1983 and 1998. We use a semi‐parametric kernel density approach and a range of inequality summary measures to assess the distributional effects of changes in five sets of factors: household structure, National Superannuation (old age pension), socio‐demographic attributes, employment outcomes, and ‘economic returns’ to such attributes and employment outcomes. Changes in househ…
Cities and Skills
Workers in cities earn 33% more than their nonurban counterparts. A large amount of evidence suggests that this premium is not just the result of higher ability workers living in cities, which means that cities make workers more productive. Evidence on migrants and the cross effect between urban status and experience implies that a significant fraction of the urban wage premium accrues to workers over time and stays with them when they leave citi…
Relatedness, complexity and local growth
We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment shares. Our approach recognizes variation in the extent of local specialization and adjusts for differences in data quality between cities. We use our measure to estimate activity and city complexity, and examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban employment growth in New Zealand. Relatedness and complexity ar…
Innovation and the local workforce
Understanding changes in Māori incomes and income inequality 1997–2003
Residential assimilation of immigrants
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…
Agglomeration elasticities and firm heterogeneity
Understanding New Zealand's Changing Income Distribution, 1983–1998
This paper analyses income distribution changes in New Zealand between 1983 and 1998. We use a semi‐parametric kernel density approach and a range of inequality summary measures to assess the distributional effects of changes in five sets of factors: household structure, National Superannuation (old age pension), socio‐demographic attributes, employment outcomes, and ‘economic returns’ to such attributes and employment outcomes. Changes in househ…
Cities and Skills
Workers in cities earn 33% more than their nonurban counterparts. A large amount of evidence suggests that this premium is not just the result of higher ability workers living in cities, which means that cities make workers more productive. Evidence on migrants and the cross effect between urban status and experience implies that a significant fraction of the urban wage premium accrues to workers over time and stays with them when they leave citi…
Understanding New Zealand's Changing Income Distribution, 1983–1998
This paper analyses income distribution changes in New Zealand between 1983 and 1998. We use a semi‐parametric kernel density approach and a range of inequality summary measures to assess the distributional effects of changes in five sets of factors: household structure, National Superannuation (old age pension), socio‐demographic attributes, employment outcomes, and ‘economic returns’ to such attributes and employment outcomes. Changes in househ…
Understanding changes in Māori incomes and income inequality 1997–2003
Defining areas and linking geographical data
This paper develops a match quality statistic to aid researchers in linking regional data that are available at inconsistent levels of aggregation. The match quality statistic developed in the paper allows researchers to make their own decisions regarding the trade‐off between specificity and completeness when choosing a basis for linking such data. We illustrate this statistic with the example of a New Zealand labour economics research project t…
Agglomeration elasticities and firm heterogeneity
Innovation and the local workforce
Residential assimilation of immigrants
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 Economic Consequences of Marital Separation for Parents in New Zealand
Marital separation, especially when dependent children are involved, is a significant and disruptive event that often involves considerable changes in living standards. This article uses a newly available dataset to provide, for the first time, estimates of the short- to medium-term economic impacts of marital separation for parents of dependent-aged children in New Zealand. Unlike most similar studies, which are based on relatively small samples…
Relatedness, complexity and local growth
We derive a measure of the relatedness between economic activities based on weighted correlations of local employment shares. Our approach recognizes variation in the extent of local specialization and adjusts for differences in data quality between cities. We use our measure to estimate activity and city complexity, and examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban employment growth in New Zealand. Relatedness and complexity ar…
Cities with forking paths? Agglomeration economies in New Zealand 1976–2018
We consider whether external urban economic advantages (agglomeration economies) vary with time and space using detailed micro-data on 134 locations in New Zealand for the period 1976–2018. We find subtle temporal variation, with estimates of agglomeration economies peaking in 1991 and then falling by approximately 1 percentage point in the subsequent 15-years. Since 2006, however, estimates have remained broadly stable; the world has not been ge…
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.…
Economics (11 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · New Zealand Economic and Social Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Labour economics (4 works) · Statistics (4 works)