Michael D. Robinson
Mount Holyoke College
34 Papers
260 Citations
Michael D. Robinson is an academic researcher from Mount Holyoke College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Earnings. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 34 publications.
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Papers
The educational attainment of young women: Role model effects of female high school faculty
Lucia Nixon,Michael D. Robinson +1 more
TL;DR: This result, combined with the finding that female faculty and professional staff have no significant impact on the educational attainment of young men, supports a female role model hypothesis.
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Employer Size and Dual Labor Markets
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observe that wages increase with employer size in primary jobs but not secondary jobs, and that primary jobs pay above market clearing wages because these jobs are difficult to monitor.
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Employer Size and Dual Labor Markets
TL;DR: This paper found evidence of an employer size wage effect in both primary and secondary labor markets, consistent with the prediction of effort control models, the size effect on wages is considerably larger in primary than secondary jobs.
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What Becomes of Undergraduate Dance Majors
TL;DR: This paper examined the earnings, work patterns, and work histories of individuals employed in the field of dance using data from a survey of graduates of the Five College Dance Department and found that graduate education in dance, age, and prior dance experience are highly correlated with employment in dance.
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Measuring Direct Discrimination in Labor Markets Using a Frontier Approach: Evidence from CPS Female Earnings Data*
TL;DR: In this paper, a stochastic earnings frontier with a discrimination discount is used to estimate discrimination against women, which is the amount female earnings are removed from the frontier, less any labor market inefficiency.
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