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 ofContemporary Labor Economics,Economics: Private and Public Choice, andUnion Membership and Earnings Data Book: Compilations from the Current Population Survey. Macpherson also co-authoredPensions and Productivitywith Stuart Dorsey and Christopher Cornwell.
Publications have appeared in theJournal of Labor Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Review of Economics and Statistics,andJournal of Human Resources. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University.
We use cookies to provide you with an optimal website experience. This includes cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site as well as cookies that are only used for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, you may not be able to use all of the site's functions.
Cookie settings
These necessary cookies are required to activate the core functionality of the website. An opt-out from these technologies is not available.
In order to further improve our offer and our website, we collect anonymous data for statistics and analyses. With the help of these cookies we can, for example, determine the number of visitors and the effect of certain pages on our website and optimize our content.