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 2021

Bryson, A., Clark, A. and Green, C. (2021) ”Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing”, Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, DOI 10.1108/JPEO-09-2021-0010

Blanchflower, D. G. And Bryson, A. (2021) ”The Economics of Walking About and Predicting US Downturns”, NBER Working Paper #29372

Blanchflower, D. G. And Bryson, A. (2021) ”The Sahm Rule and Predicting the Great Recession across OECD Countries”, NBER Working Paper #29300

Blanchflower, D. G. And Bryson, A. (2021) ”The Consequences of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life: Evidence from the National Child Development Survey”, NBER Working Paper #29278

Forth, J., Theodoropoulos, N. and Bryson, A. (2021) ”The Role of the Workplace in Ethnic Wage Differentials”, QSS Working Paper #21-25

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2021) ”The Economics of Walking About and Predicting Unemployment”, NBER Working Paper #29172

Wielgoszewska, B., Bryson, A., Costa-Dias, M., Foliano, F., Joshi, H. and Wilkinson, D. (2021) “Exploring the Reasons for Labour Market Gender Inequality a Year into the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the UK Cohort Studies”, QSS Working Paper #21-23

Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (2022) ”Union Effects on Product and Technological Innovation”, Research in Labor Economics, 49: 41-67

Parsons, S., Bryson, A. and Sullivan, A. (2021) ”Teenage conduct problems: a lifetime of disadvantage in the labour market?”, QSS Working Paper #21-22

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2021) ”Biden, COVID and Mental Health in America”, NBER Working Paper #29040 and QSS Working Paper #21-21

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2021) ”Unemployment Disrupts Sleep”, Economics and Human Biology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101042

Blanchflower D.G., Bryson A., and Green, C. (2021) “Trade unions and the well-being of workers”, British Journal of Industrial Relations 1–23 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12627

Piper, A., Blanchflower, D. and Bryson, A. (2021) ”Does Pain Lead to Job Loss?”, NBER Working Paper #28863 and QSS Working Paper #21-19

Artz, B., Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2021) ”Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States”, NBER Working Paper #28717 and QSS Working Paper #21-13

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2021) “Union membership peaks in Midlife”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12606

Joshi, H., Bryson, A., Ward, K. and Wilkinson, D. (2021) ”The Gender Gap in Wages over the Life Course: Evidence from a British Cohort Born in 1958”, Gender, Work & Organization, 28: 397-415

Bachan, R. And Bryson A. (2021) ”The Gender Wage Gap Among University Vice Chancellors in the UK”, Quantitative Social Science Working Paper 21-04

Bryson, A., Buraimo, B., Farnell, A. and Simmons, R. (2021) ”Special Ones? The Effect of Head Coaches on Football Team Performance”, Quantitative Social Science Working Paper 21-03

Bryson, A. and White, M. (2021) ”High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain”, Oxford Economic Papers, 73, 3: 1057-1076

Bryson, A., Forth, J., Gray, H. and Stokes, L. (2021) ”Does Employing Older Workers Affect Workplace Performance?”, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 59, 4: 532-562

Beynon, H., Blakely, H., Bryson, A. and Davies, R. (2021) ”The Persistence of Union Membership within the Coalfields of Britain”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjir.12588

Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Dolton, P., Reade, J. J., and Schreyer, D. (2021) ”What Can We Learn About Economics from Sport During Covid-19?”, University of Reading, Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 2021-01

Bryson, A., Joshi, H., Wielgoszewska, B. and Wilkinson, D. (2020) ”A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 36, 4: 836-854