Here's what caught my eye in research over the past week (a slow week, it seems!):
- van der Sanden et al. find that 'store within a store' vape retailers in Auckland are much more prevalent in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation
- Henrekson and Persson review the state of competition in European football, and argue that technological change (especially global broadcasting) and labour laws that have strengthened player mobility, have led to a small number of superstars capturing a disproportionate share of the surplus generated in the football market, and worsened competitive balance
Also new from the Waikato working papers series:
- McNamara looks at pass-through of fuel taxes to retail fuel prices, using the introduction and repeal of the 10c-per-litre Auckland regional fuel tax as a natural experiment, finding that fuel prices increased by 10.8 cents per litre following the tax introduction and fell by 11.6 cents per litre after its repeal, indicating near-complete and symmetric pass-through on average, while local competition determined the extent of pass-through for particular retailers
- My latest working paper, co-authored with Courtenay Baker, looks at the contributions of demographic change (cohort turnover and migration) to changes in the working age population at the subnational level in New Zealand from 1998-2023, finding that cohort turnover (the difference between number of people aged 60-64 exiting the working age population, and the number of people aged 10-14 entering the working age population) is having a decreasing effect over time, meaning that local labour supply is increasingly contingent on highly variable migration flows (I'll talk more about this research in a post next week)
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