Fellow

Prof. Alex Bryson

Fellow Email: a.bryson [at] niesr.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)7969 179755 Twitter: @AlexanderBryson Google Scholar: View profile Linked In: View profile

Research interests:

Alex Bryson is Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL’s Social Research Institute, and a Research Fellow at IZA, Rutgers and NIESR. He is an applied labour economist with a background in sociology and employment relations. His research focuses on labour economics, employment relations and programme evaluation.

Education:

2013: University of Bristol, PhD Sociology

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2015 - Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Department of Social Science, University College London https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ABRYS65

2014 - IZA Research Fellow Alex's webpage at IZA

Publications in 2020

Bryson, A., Joshi, H., Wielgoszewska, B. and Wilkinson, D. (forthcoming) ”A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Bryson, A., Forth, J., Gray, H. and Stokes, L. (forthcoming) ”Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?”, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

White, M. and Bryson, A. (forthcoming) ”High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain”, Oxford Economic Papers

Joshi, H., Bryson, A., Ward, K. and Wilkinson, D. (2020) ”The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course: Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958”, Gender, Work & Organization DOI:10.1111/gwao.12580

Bryson, A., Buraimo, B. Farnell, A. and Simmons, R. (2020) ”Time to Go? Head Coach Quits and Dismissals in Professional Football”, De Economist http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10645-020-09377-8

Bryson, A., Dolton, P., Reade, J. J., Schreyer, D. and Singleton, C. (2020) ”Experimental effects of an absent crowd on performances and refereeing decisions during Covid-19”, Economic Letters https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109664

Barth, E., Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (2020) ”Do Public Subsidies of Union Membership Increase Union Membership Rates?”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13747

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2020) ”Unemployment Disrupts Sleep”, NBER Working Paper No. 27814

Bryson, A., Corsini, L. and Martelli, A. (2020) ”Teacher Allocation and School Performance in Italy”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13669

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2020) ”Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing”, NBER Working Paper No. 27720

Beynon, H., Blakely, H., Bryson, A. and Davies, R. (2020) ”The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13615

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2020) ”Union Membership Peaks in Midlife”, NBER Working Paper No. 27692

Bryson, A., Stokes, L. and Wilkinson, D. (2020) ”Can HRM Improve Schools’ Performance?”, Labour DOI: 10.1111/labr.12178

Barth, E., Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (2020) “Union density, productivity and wages”, The Economic Journal https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa048

Willman, P., Bryson, A., Gomez, R. and Kretschmer, T. (2020) "Employee voice and the transaction cost economics project", Chapter 4 in A. Wilkinson, J. Donaghey, T. Dundon, R. Freeman (eds.) Handbook of Research on Employee Voice, pp. 54-67, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

Bryson, A., Joshi, H., Wielgoszewska, B. and Wilkinson, D. (2020) ”A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13289

Bryson, A., Dale-Olsen, H. and Nergaard, K. (2020) “Gender Differences in the Union Wage Premium? A Comparative Case Study”, European Journal of Industrial Relations, 26, 2: 173-190

Barth, E., Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (2020) ”How does tax deduction affect union membership?”, Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 37: s109-123

Willman, P., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. (2020) "UK Trade Unions and the Problem of Collective Action", British Journal of Industrial Relations, 58, 2: 447-470

Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (2020) ”Unions, Tripartite Competition and Innovation”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 13015

Viinikainen, J., Bryson, A., Böckerman, P. Elovainio, M., Hutri-Kahonen, N., Juonala, M., Lehtimaki, T., Pahkala, K., Rovio, S., Pulkki-Raback, L., Raitakari, O. and Pehkonen, J. (2020) ”Do Childhood Infections Affect Labour Market Outcomes in Adulthood and, if so, How?”, Economics and Human Biology, Vol. 37

Böckerman, P., Bryson, A., Kauhanen, A. and Kangasniemi, M. (2020) ”Does Job Design Make Workers Happy?”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 67, 1: 31-52