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Economics and Finance
UK
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
69
Citations
28630
World Ranking
479
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Alan Manning is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses broadly on economics, econometrics, and finance, intersecting with social sciences. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to the subfields of economics and econometrics as well as sociology and political science.

Their academic work centers particularly on labor market dynamics and wage inequality, covering related topics such as migration and labor dynamics, firm innovation and growth, employment and welfare studies, labor movements and unions, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, and intergenerational and educational inequality studies.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Bárbara Petrongolo, Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen, Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, and Michael Oberfichtner.

Alan Manning has published in several venues, with the most frequent being the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Economic Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, and The Journal of Human Resources.

  • Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Review, 2020, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  • The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labor Markets, 2020, The Journal of Human Resources
  • The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage, 2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Subjective Job Insecurity and the Rise of the Precariat: Evidence from the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States, 2022, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle, 2024, The Review of Economics and Statistics

Best Publications

  • Lousy and Lovely Jobs: The Rising Polarization of Work in Britain

    Maarten Goos;Alan Manning

  • Job Polarization in Europe

    Maarten Goos;Alan Manning;Anna Salomons

  • Monopsony in motion

    Alan Manning

  • Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets

    Alan Manning

  • Explaining job polarization: Routine-biased technological change and offshoring

    Maarten Goos;Alan Manning;Anna Salomons

  • The Economic Impact of Minimum Wages in Europe

    Juan Dolado;Francis Kramarz;Stephen Machin;Alan Manning

  • The Economic Situation of First and Second‐Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom*

    Yann Algan;Christian Dustmann;Albrecht Glitz;Allan Manning

  • THE IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON THE STRUCTURE OF WAGES: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM BRITAIN

    Marco Manacorda;Alan Manning;Jonathan Wadsworth

  • The causes and consequences of longterm unemployment in Europe

    Stephen Machin;Alan Manning

  • The effects of minimum wages on employment: Theory and evidence from Britain

    Richard Dickens;Stephen Machin;Alan Manning

  • The Real Thin Theory: Monopsony in Modern Labour Markets

    Alan Manning

  • The Part‐Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

    Alan Manning;Barbara Petrongolo

  • The gender gap in early‐career wage growth

    Alan Manning;Joanna Swaffield

  • Oligopsony and monopsonistic competition in labor markets

    V Bhaskar;Alan Manning;Ted To

  • The Effects of Minimum Wages on Wage Dispersion and Employment: Evidence from the U.K. Wages Councils:

    Stephen Machin;Alan Manning

  • The Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment in Europe

    Stephen Machin;Alan Manning

  • Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries

    Ghazala Azmat;Maia Güell;Alan Manning

  • Where the Minimum Wage Bites Hard: Introduction of Minimum Wages to a Low Wage Sector

    Stephen Machin;Alan Manning;Lupin Rahman

  • The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

    David H. Autor;Alan Manning;Christopher L. Smith

  • An Integration of Trade Union Models in a Sequential Bargaining Framework

    Alan Manning

  • The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain

    Marco Manacorda;Alan Manning;Jonathan Wadsworth

  • The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

    David H. Autor;Alan Manning;Christopher L. Smith

  • THE RISING POLARIZATION OF WORK IN BRITAIN

    Maarten Goos;Alan Manning

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Machin
Stephen Machin London School of Economics and Political Science
Barbara Petrongolo
Barbara Petrongolo London School of Economics and Political Science
Jonathan Wadsworth
Jonathan Wadsworth Royal Holloway University of London
Paul Gregg
Paul Gregg University of Bath
Christian Dustmann
Christian Dustmann University College London
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science
Ben Lockwood
Ben Lockwood University of Warwick
Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Jörn-Steffen Pischke London School of Economics and Political Science
Costas Meghir
Costas Meghir Yale University
Francis Kramarz
Francis Kramarz Collège de France

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