Education:

1981 - 1984: University of Bristol, BSc Politics and Sociology
1986 - 1988: London School of Economics, MSc Industrial Relations

Career:

1985 - 1989 Confederation of British Industry, Researcher
1989 - 1991 Low Pay Unit, Researcher
1991 - 1996 Research Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
1997 - 1998 Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
1998 - 2006 Principal Research Fellow, Policy Studies Institute
2007 -2008 Research Director, Policy Studies Institute

Research Interests:

Labour economics
Industrial Relations
Policy evaluation

Other Information:

For a full PDF CV please click here: CV Alex Bryson 2009
Alex’s webpage at LSE’s CEP
Alex’s webpage on Biomarkers and Economic Behaviour
BEB Research Group Blog
2008 - Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
2005 - Associate Expert in the EU 6th Framework funded Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC) Network

Selected Publications:

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2009) ‘The Wage Impact of Trade Unions in the UK Public and Private Sectors’ , Economica, 77, 305: 92-109
Bryson, A., Dale-Olsen, H. and Barth E. (2009) 'How Does Innovation Affect Worker Well-being?' , CEP Discussion Paper No.953

Brown, W., Bryson, A., Forth, J. and Whitfield, K. (2009) `The Evolution of the Modern British Workplace' , Cambridge University Press

Brown, W., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. (2009) ‘Competition and the retreat from collective bargaining’ , Chapter 2 in W. Brown, A. Bryson, J. Forth and K. Whitfield (eds.) The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, pp. 22-47, Cambridge University Press

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2009) ‘Trade union decline and the economics of the workplace’ , Chapter 3 in W. Brown, A. Bryson, J. Forth and K. Whitfield (eds.) The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, pp. 48-73, Cambridge University Press

Willman, P., Gomez, R. and Bryson, A. (2009) ‘Voice at the workplace: where do we find it, why is it there, and where is it going?’ , Chapter 5 in W. Brown, A. Bryson, J. Forth and K. Whitfield (eds.) The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, pp. 97-119, Cambridge University Press

Guest, D. and Bryson, A. (2009) ‘From industrial relations to human resource management: the changing role of the personnel function’ , Chapter 6 in W. Brown, A. Bryson, J. Forth and K. Whitfield (eds.) The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, pp. 120-150, Cambridge University Press

Wood, S. and Bryson, A. (2009) ‘High involvement management’ , Chapter 7 in W. Brown, A. Bryson, J. Forth and K. Whitfield (eds.) The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, pp. 151-175, Cambridge University Press

Pendleton, A., Whitfield, K. and Bryson, A. (2009) ‘The changing use of contingent pay in the modern British workplace’ , Chapter 11 in W. Brown, A. Bryson, J. Forth and K. Whitfield (eds.) The Evolution of the Modern Workplace, pp. 256-284, Cambridge University Press

Bryson, A., Cappellari, L. and Lucifora, C. (2009) ‘Workers’ Perceptions of Job Insecurity: Do Job Security Guarantees Work?’, Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Vol. 23, s1, 177-196

Willman, P. and Bryson, A. (2009) ‘Accounting for Collective Action: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization in British Unions’ , Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol. 16, 23-50

Gomez, R., Bryson, A., Kretschmer, T. and Willman, P. (2009) 'Employee Voice and Private Sector Workplace Outcomes In Britain, 1980-2004', CEP Discussion Paper No. 924

Bryson, A., Forth, J. and Laroche, P. (2009) 'Unions and Workplace Performance in Britain and France' , CEP Discussion Paper No. 920

Gomez, R., Bryson, A., and Willman, P. (2008) ‘From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a Twenty-First-Century Context', Labor and Employment Relations Association Series, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting, 51-60

Bryson, A., Green, F. and Whitfield, K. (2008) ‘A Quarter Century of Workplace Employment Relations Surveys', British Journal of Industrial Relations, 46, 4, 577-586

Bryson, A. and Freeman, R. (2008) ‘How Does Shared Captalism Affect Economic Performance In the UK?', NBER Working Paper No. 14235, Cambridge, Mass.

Bryson, A. and Forth, J. (2008) ‘The Theory and Practice of Pay Setting’ in P. Blyton, N. Bacon, J. Fiorito, and E. Heery (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations, pp. 491-512, Sage Publications, London

Willman, P., Bryson, A. and Gomez, R. (2007) ‘The long goodbye: new establishments and the fall of union voice in Britain’, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18, 7, 1318-1334

Bryson, A. and Freeman R. (2007) ‘What Voice Do British Workers Want?’ in R. Freeman, P. Boxall and P. Haynes (eds.) What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace, Cornell University Press, pp.72-96

Bryson, A. Gomez, R., Kretschmer, T. and Willman, P. (2007) ‘The Diffusion of Workplace Voice and High-Commitment Human Resource Management Practices in Britain, 1984-1998’, Industrial and Corporate Change, 16, 3: 395-426

Blanchflower, D. G., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. (2007) ‘Workplace Industrial Relations In Britain, 1980-2004’, Industrial Relations Journal, 38, 4: 285-302