David A. Macpherson

Research Fellow

Trinity University

David.Macpherson@trinity.edu

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David A. Macpherson is the E.M. Stevens Distinguished Professor Economics at Trinity University. Previously, he was the Rod and Hope Brim Eminent Scholar of Economics and Director of the Pepper Institute of Aging and Public Policy at Florida State University. Macpherson is an applied labor economist whose research focuses on wage and fringe benefit determination in U.S. labor markets.

Recent work includes the study of participant direction in pension funds, firm size wage differential, and earnings in regulated and previously regulated industries. He is co-author of Contemporary Labor Economics, Economics: Private and Public Choice, and Union Membership and Earnings Data Book: Compilations from the Current Population Survey. Macpherson also co-authored Pensions and Productivity with Stuart Dorsey and Christopher Cornwell.

Publications have appeared in the Journal of Labor Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Human Resources. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2004.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15300

Real Estate Agent Earnings and Local Housing Prices

Barry Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Zichong (Tom) Qu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14398

Five Decades of Union Wages, Nonunion Wages, and Union Wage Gaps at Unionstats.com

David A. Macpherson, Barry Hirsch

published as 'Five decades of CPS wages, methods, and union-nonunion wage gaps at Unionstats.com' in: Industrial Relations, 2023, 62 (4), 439-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12000

Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2019, 40 (1), 1 - 23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10571

Nonprofit Wages: Theory and Evidence

Barry Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, Anne E. Preston

published in: Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young (eds.), Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, 2nd ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 146-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9324

The Affordable Care Act and the Growth of Involuntary Part-Time Employment

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

revised version published in: ILR Review, 2019, 72 (4), 955-980

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7092

The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

revised version published as "The Effect of the Tipped Minimum Wage on Employees in the U.S. Restaurant Industry" in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 633-655

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5256

What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1173-1189

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4088

The Growth of Participant Direction in Defined Contribution Plans

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(2), 190–208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4082

Is Bigger Still Better? The Decline of the Wage Premium at Large Firms

William E. Even, David A. Macpherson

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78(4), 1181-1201