Professor Alex Bryson

Alex’s research focuses on labour economics, employment relations and programme evaluation.

• 2013 – University of Bristol, PhD Sociology

• 2015 – Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Department of Social Science, University College London​​
• 2014 – IZA Research Fellow

Alex Bryson’s CV

Barth, E., Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (forthcoming) ”Creative Disruption – Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic”, Economica (previously QSS Working Paper No. 22-07 and IZA Discussion Paper No. 15762)

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (forthcoming) ”Life Satisfaction in Western Europe and the Gradual Vanishing of the U-Shape in Age”, Academia Mental Health and Wellbeing

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (forthcoming) “Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe”, chapter in Anderson G. and Bandyopadhyay, S. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Income Distribution and Economic Growth, Oxford University Press

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) ”The Consequences of Abuse, Neglect and Cyber-bullying on the Wellbeing of the Young”, Plos One 20(8): e0327456

Blanchflower, D. G., Bryson, A. and Xu, X. (2025) “The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the hump shape in age in unhappiness”, PLoS One, 20 (8): e0327858

Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (2025) “Job Search Under Changing Labour Taxes”, Labour Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102750

Gregory-Smith, I., Bryson, A. and Gomez, R. (2025) ”Discrimination in retention decisions and its impact on career earnings. Evidence from the National Football League”, Rockwool Foundation Discussion Paper No. 54/25

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) “The Mental Health of the Young in Latin America”, Social Research Indicators, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03669-9

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) ”Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States”, NBER Working Paper #34071

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) ”The Mental Health of the Young in Asia and the Middle East: The Importance of Self-Reports”, Quality and Quantity, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-025-02264-x

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) ”Life Satisfaction in Western Europe and the Gradual Vanishing of the U-Shape in Age”, NBER Working Paper #33950

Phan, V., Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Forth, J., Ritchie, F., Stokes, L. And Whittard, D. (2025) ”Accounting for Firms in the Ethnic Wage Gaps Across the Earnings Distribution”, NIESR Discussion Paper No. 570

Forth, J., Bryson, A. And Palmou, C. (2025) ”A Roadmap for Developing a New LEED Infrastructure for the UK”, ESCoE Technical Report TR-28

Forth, J., Bryson, A., Phan, V., Ritchie, F., Singleton, C., Stokes, L. And Whittard, D. (2025) ”The Representativeness of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and its Implications for UK Wage Policy”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjir.70010

Forth, J., Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Phan, V. Ritchie, F. And Whittard, D. (2025) ”The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility across Firms”, British Journal of Industrial Relations,  https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.70008

Human Development Report Office, Blanchflower, D. G., Bryson, A., Thiagarajan, T. and Newson, J. (2025) ”The decline in young people’s mental wellbeing in some parts of the world”, pp. 88-93 in The 2025 Human Development Report, the United Nations Development Programme, New York

Bryson, A., Forth, J. And Green, F. (2025) ”The Relative Importance of the Establishment in the Determination of Job Quality”, IZA Discussion Paper No. 17724

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) ”The Mental Health of the Young in Asia and the Middle East: The Importance of Self-Reports”, NBER Working Paper No. 33475

Amossé, T., Bryson, A., Forth, J. and Petit, H. (2025) “The Micro-foundations of Employment Systems: An Empirical Case Study of Britain and France”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 63, 1: 3-29

Bryson, A., Morris, T., Wilkinson, D. and Bann, D. (2025) “The Gender Wage Gap across Life: Effects of Genetic Predisposition Towards Higher Educational Attainment”, Economics and Human Biology, 56: 101471

Böckerman, P., Bryson, A., Ilmakunnas, I. and Ilmakunnas, P. (2025) “Does High Involvement Management Make You Work Longer? Insights from Linked Survey and Register Data”, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 30: 100549

Scarfe, R., Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Forth, J., Phan, V., Ritchie, F. and Whittard, D. (2025) “New evidence on gender pay gaps in Great Britain”, ADR England Data Insight, https://www.adruk.org/fileadmin/uploads/adruk/Documents/Data_Insights/gender_pay_gap_insights.pdf

Scarfe, R., Singleton, C., Bryson, A., Forth, J., Phan, V., Whittard, D. and Ritchie, F. (2025) “How many jobs? How much earned? First findings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings linked to PAYE data from HMRC”, ADR England Data Insight,  https://www.adruk.org/fileadmin/uploads/adruk/Documents/Data_Insights/WED_Data_Insight_multiple_jobs_vPublish.pdf

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) “Unions, Wages and Hours”, British Journal of Industrial Relations, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12871

Blanchflower, D. G. and Bryson, A. (2025) ”The Mental Health of the Young in Ex-Soviet States”, NBER Working Paper No. 33356

Barth, E., Bryson, A. and Dale-Olsen, H. (2025) ”Turning Non-members into Members: Do Public Subsidies to Union Membership Matter?”,  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 229: 106855