Alan Manning
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3590396 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alan Manning |
| NOMBRES | Alan |
| APELLIDO | Manning |
| FIRMA | MANNING A |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7884-3580 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 491 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Vacancy Duration and Wages
We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design leverages firm-level wage policies that are plausibly exogenous to hiring difficulties on specific job vacancies, and controls for job and marketlevel fixed-effects. Wage policies are defined based on external information on pay settlements, or on sharp, internally-defined,…
Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries
Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration
If labour markets are competitive, migration can only affect native wages via marginal products. But under imperfect competition, migration may also increase wage mark-downs—if firms have greater monopsony power over migrants than natives, but cannot perfectly wage discriminate. While marginal products depend on relative labour supplies across skill cells, mark-downs depend on migrant concentration within them. This insight can help rationalise e…
Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle
Using micro data for the UK and Germany, we provide novel evidence on the cyclical properties of reservation wages and estimate that wages and reservation wages are characterised by moderate and very similar degrees of cyclicality. Several job search models that quantitatively match the cyclicality of wages tend to overpredict the cyclicality in reservation wages. We show that this puzzle can be addressed when reservation wages display backward-l…
Subjective Job Insecurity and the Rise of the Precariat
There is a widespread belief that work is less secure than in the past, that an increasing share of workers are part of the “precariat.” It is hard to find much evidence for this in objective measures of job security, but perhaps subjective measures show different trends. This paper shows that in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, workers feel as secure as they ever have in the past 30 years. This is partly because job insecurity…
Diversity and social capital within the workplace
This article uses the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey to investigate the links between gender or ethnic diversity and workers' level of trust in managers or the extent of identity with the values and objectives of the firm – dimensions of what we might call social capital within the workplace. These are both factors that one might expect to make firms more cooperative and, hence, productive. Controlling for plants workforce compositio…
Commuting for Crime
People care about crime, with the spatial distribution of both actual and perceived crime affecting the local amenities from living in different areas and residential decisions. The literature finds that crime tends to happen close to the offender's residence, but does not clearly establish whether this is because the location of likely offenders and crime opportunities are close to each other, whether more local crimes are likely to be solved or…
Monopsony in Labor Markets
Researchers’ interest in monopsony has increased in recent years. This article reviews the accumulating evidence that employers have considerable monopsony power. It summarizes the application of this idea to explaining the impact of minimum wages and immigration, in anti-trust, and in understanding how to model the determinants of earnings in matched employer–employee data sets and the implications for inequality and the labor share
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
It is hard to find a negative effect on the employment effect of rises in the minimum wage: the elusive employment effect. It is much easier to find an impact on wages. This paper argues the elusive employment effect is unlikely to be solved by better data, methodology, or specification. The reasons for the elusive employment effect are the factors contributing to why the link between higher minimum wages and higher labor costs are weaker than on…
Diversity and Neighbourhood Satisfaction
This article investigates the impact of ethnic diversity on individuals’ satisfaction with their neighbourhoods. It uses panel data and a variety of empirical methods to control for potential endogeneity of diversity and of location choices. We find that a higher white share raises overall satisfaction with the neighbourhood in our (overwhelming white) sample, but has no significant impact on generalised trust or other commonly used measures of s…
Lincoln in Indiana
Every modern Abraham Lincoln biographer faces three challenges when writing a new book about our sixteenth president: telling a story that has not already been well told, presenting an honest exami
The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to US Wage Inequality over Three Decades
We reassess the effect of minimum wages on US earnings inequality using additional decades of data and an IV strategy that addresses potential biases in prior work. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution, though by substantially less than previous estimates, suggesting that rising lower tail inequality after 1980 primarily reflects underlying wage structure changes rather than an unmasking of l…
Explaining Job Polarization
This paper documents the pervasiveness of job polarization in 16 Western European countries over the period 1993–2010. It then develops and estimates a framework to explain job polarization using routine-biased technological change and offshoring. This model can explain much of both total job polarization and the split into within-industry and between-industry components. (JEL J21, J23, J24, M55, O33)
Monopsony in Motion
Monopsony in Motion
Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe
The concepts of cultural diversity and cultural identity are at the forefront of the political debate in many western societies. In Europe, the discussion is stimulated by the political pressures associated with immigration flows, which are increasing in many European countries. The imperatives that current immigration trends impose on European democracies bring to light a number of issues that need to be addressed. What are the patterns and dyna…
Spend it like Beckham? Inequality and redistribution in the UK, 1983–2004
Privatization and the Decline of Labour's Share
Some authors have suggested that deregulation of product and labour markets is responsible for the decline in Labour's share of GDP. A simple model predicts that privatization is associated with a lower labour share, due to job shedding. We test this hypothesis by focusing on privatization of network industries in the OECD. We find that, on average, privatization accounts for a fifth of the fall of Labour's share, and over half in Britain and Fra…
The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Wages
Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the supply of educated natives have had significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time ser…
The Economic Situation of First and Second‐Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with large immigrant populations albeit with very different ethnic compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents’ destinat…
Feature
Journal Article Feature: The Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Europe: Introduction Get access Alan Manning Alan Manning London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 120, Issue 542, 1 February 2010, Pages F1–F3, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02343.x Published: 20 January 2010
Culture Clash or Culture Club? National Identity in Britain
This article investigates the extent and determinants of British identity among those living in Britain, a source of considerable contemporary angst. We find no evidence for a culture clash in general, and one connected with Muslims in particular. The vast majority of those born in Britain, of whatever ethnicity or religion, think of themselves as British. Newly arrived immigrants almost never think of themselves as British but the longer they re…
Understanding the Gender Pay Gap
A number of researchers have argued that men and women have different attitudes toward and behavioral responses to competition; that is, women are more likely to opt out of jobs in which performance pay is the norm and to under-perform in some competitive situations. Laboratory experiments suggest that these gender differences are rather large. To check these hypotheses and findings against differences in the field, the authors use performance pa…
Job Polarization in Europe
The structure of employment is always changing, and economists are always trying to understand those changes. In the 1990s the idea of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) was used to understand the shift in employment toward more educated workers (see David H. Autor and Lawrence F. Katz 1999, for a survey). However, in recent years, it has become appar ent that a more nuanced approach is needed. The idea of SBTC might lead one to predict a u…
The plant size-place effect
This article shows, using data from both the USA and the UK, that average plant size is larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration-spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality-predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The article proposes a theory based on monopsony in labour markets-firms in all labour markets have some market power but that they have less market power in cities-that can ex…
The Economic Situation of First and Second‐Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with large immigrant populations albeit with very different ethnic compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents’ destinat…
The Part‐Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This article tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by the differing characteristics of FT and PT women. Inclusion of standard demographics halves the estimate of the pay penalty. But inclusion of occupatio…
Culture Clash or Culture Club? National Identity in Britain
This article investigates the extent and determinants of British identity among those living in Britain, a source of considerable contemporary angst. We find no evidence for a culture clash in general, and one connected with Muslims in particular. The vast majority of those born in Britain, of whatever ethnicity or religion, think of themselves as British. Newly arrived immigrants almost never think of themselves as British but the longer they re…
The Gender Gap in Early‐Career Wage Growth
In the UK the gender pay gap on entry to the labour market is approximately zero but ten years after labour market entry, there is a gender wage gap of almost 25 log points. This article explores the reason for this gender gap in early-career wage growth, considering three main hypotheses - human capital, job-shopping and 'psychological' theories. Human capital factors can explain about 11 log points, job-shopping about 1.5 log points and the psy…
We Can Work It Out
There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that we humans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects both the absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour. In recent years, the idea of skill‐biased technical change has become the consensus view about the current impact of technology on labour demand, namely that t…
Change and continuity among minority communities in Britain
Oligopsony and Monopsonistic Competition in Labor Markets
We argue that models of oligopsony or monopsonistic competition provide insights and explanation for many empirical phenomena in labor markets. Using a simple model with job differentiation and preference heterogeneity, we illustrate how such models can be employed to explain the existence of wage dispersion, the persistence of labor market discrimination, market failures in the provision of training and the anomalous employment effects of minimu…
Spend it like Beckham? Inequality and redistribution in the UK, 1983–2004
An Integration of Trade Union Models in a Sequential Bargaining Framework
Journal Article An Integration of Trade Union Models in a Sequential Bargaining Framework Get access Alan Manning Alan Manning Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 385, 1 March 1987, Pages 121–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233326 Published: 01 March 1987
The Effects of Minimum Wages on Wage Dispersion and Employment
Using data on Wages Council coverage from the United Kingdom New Earnings Survey, the authors examine the impact of mandated minimum wages on wage dispersion and employment in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. They find evidence that a dramatic decline in the toughness of the regulation imposed by the Wages Councils through the 1980s—a decline, that is, in the level of the minimum wage relative to the average wage—significantly contributed to wide…
The Elusive Employment Effect of the Minimum Wage
It is hard to find a negative effect on the employment effect of rises in the minimum wage: the elusive employment effect. It is much easier to find an impact on wages. This paper argues the elusive employment effect is unlikely to be solved by better data, methodology, or specification. The reasons for the elusive employment effect are the factors contributing to why the link between higher minimum wages and higher labor costs are weaker than on…
Privatization and the Decline of Labour's Share
Some authors have suggested that deregulation of product and labour markets is responsible for the decline in Labour's share of GDP. A simple model predicts that privatization is associated with a lower labour share, due to job shedding. We test this hypothesis by focusing on privatization of network industries in the OECD. We find that, on average, privatization accounts for a fifth of the fall of Labour's share, and over half in Britain and Fra…
Feature
Journal Article Feature: The Integration of Immigrants and their Children in Europe: Introduction Get access Alan Manning Alan Manning London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 120, Issue 542, 1 February 2010, Pages F1–F3, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02343.x Published: 20 January 2010
Understanding the Gender Pay Gap
A number of researchers have argued that men and women have different attitudes toward and behavioral responses to competition; that is, women are more likely to opt out of jobs in which performance pay is the norm and to under-perform in some competitive situations. Laboratory experiments suggest that these gender differences are rather large. To check these hypotheses and findings against differences in the field, the authors use performance pa…
Spikes and Spill‐Overs
Journal Article Spikes and Spill‐Overs: The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Wage Distribution in a Low‐Wage Sector Get access Richard Dickens, Richard Dickens Queen Mary, University of London and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Manning Alan Manning Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics Search for other works b…
Employment and the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in Britain
Journal Article Employment and the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in Britain Get access Stephen Machin, Stephen Machin University College, London and London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Manning Alan Manning University College, London and London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 436…
Diversity and Neighbourhood Satisfaction
This article investigates the impact of ethnic diversity on individuals’ satisfaction with their neighbourhoods. It uses panel data and a variety of empirical methods to control for potential endogeneity of diversity and of location choices. We find that a higher white share raises overall satisfaction with the neighbourhood in our (overwhelming white) sample, but has no significant impact on generalised trust or other commonly used measures of s…
A Generalised Model of Monopsony
This article presents a general but very simple model in which the supply of labour to an individual employer is not infinitely elastic but the employer can also raise employment by increasing expenditure on recruitment. Using this, it is shown how that division between perfect competition and monopsony is whether there are diseconomies of scale in recruitment. Using a unique British data set containing information on both labour turnover costs a…
The Equal Pay Act as an Experiment to Test Theories of the Labour Market
The UK Equal Pay Act of 1970 resulted in a large rise in the relative earnings of women in the early 1970s. As this change (unlike most wage changes) was largely exogenous to employers, one can think of this episode as an experiment for testing different theories of the labour market. Hence, study of the effects of the Equal Pay Act should be given considerable weight and is likely to have wider implications about the operation of labour markets.…
Wage Bargaining and the Phillips Curve
Most economists believe that wage-setting is very important for understanding macroeconomic behavior, but the form of wage equations commonly estimated suffer from problems of identification. The aim of this paper is to consider whether these problems are inevitable and, if they are not, to suggest ways in whi ch one can estimate structural models of wage-setting. It is argued that if one confines attention to models of wage bargaining t hat are …
The plant size-place effect
This article shows, using data from both the USA and the UK, that average plant size is larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration-spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality-predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The article proposes a theory based on monopsony in labour markets-firms in all labour markets have some market power but that they have less market power in cities-that can ex…
Developments in Labour Market Theory and Their Implications for Macroeconomic Policy
Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration
If labour markets are competitive, migration can only affect native wages via marginal products. But under imperfect competition, migration may also increase wage mark-downs—if firms have greater monopsony power over migrants than natives, but cannot perfectly wage discriminate. While marginal products depend on relative labour supplies across skill cells, mark-downs depend on migrant concentration within them. This insight can help rationalise e…
The continuity paradox and emergent linguistic structure
The Determinants of Wage Pressure
Most models of wage determination are static. This paper analyzes a simple dynamic model of collective bargaining and argues that this provides insights into the determinants of wage pressure that a static model cannot provide. In particular, it is shown how the length of labor contracts and the dynamics of the labor market affect the level of aggregate wage pressure. The policy implications of the model are very different from those traditionall…
The Argentaye Tract
The Argentaye tract, writing some time in the early fifteenth century, is a little-known heraldic treatise of which there appears to be only one extant copy. In this book, the first scholarly edition of any such treatise, Alan Manning presents the original text with extensive notes elucidating difficult passages and points of interest.
Tense and the structure of clause types
The Profitability of Private Information in Unionised Capitalist Enterprises
Journal Article The Profitability of Private Information in Unionised Capitalist Enterprises Get access Alan Manning Alan Manning Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 96, Issue Supplement, 1 December 1986, Pages 122–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232975 Published: 01 December 1986
Mathematical Methods in Economics
An Integration of Trade Union Models in a Sequential Bargaining Framework
Journal Article An Integration of Trade Union Models in a Sequential Bargaining Framework Get access Alan Manning Alan Manning Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 97, Issue 385, 1 March 1987, Pages 121–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/2233326 Published: 01 March 1987
The Pedagogy of thème spécialisé
Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market
One of the more troubling aspects of the ferment in macroeconomics that followed the demise of the Keynesian dominance in the late 1960s has been the inability of many of the new ideas to account for unemployment remains unexplained because equilibrium in most economic models occurs with supply equal to demand: if this equality holds in the labor market, there is no involuntary unemployment. Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market explores the…
The SOV >62; … >62; OSV frequency hierarchy
The invariant code-significance of lexical items
Dynamic Wage-Employment Bargaining with Employment Adjustment Costs
Journal Article Dynamic Wage-Employment Bargaining with Employment Adjustment Costs Get access Ben Lockwood, Ben Lockwood Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Manning Alan Manning Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 99, Issue 398, 1 December 1989, Pages 1143–1158, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234093 Published: 0…
Imperfect Competition, Multiple Equilibria and Unemployment Policy
Journal Article Imperfect Competition, Multiple Equilibria and Unemployment Policy Get access Alan Manning Alan Manning Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 400, 1 April 1990, Pages 151–162, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234192 Published: 01 April 1990
The Determinants of Wage Pressure
Most models of wage determination are static. This paper analyzes a simple dynamic model of collective bargaining and argues that this provides insights into the determinants of wage pressure that a static model cannot provide. In particular, it is shown how the length of labor contracts and the dynamics of the labor market affect the level of aggregate wage pressure. The policy implications of the model are very different from those traditionall…
Wage Formation and Macroeconomic Policy in the Nordic Countries
This study examines labour markets in Scandinavia. Scandinavian labour market policies have always represented one of the strongest alternatives to those adopted by recent governments in the UK and USA, and the ability of these countries to maintain such low unemployment is currently of great interest to the economists. The key issue in the book concerns the possibilities of combining wage moderation with active employment policies. Other central…
Paralinguistic character structure in popular syndicated television
L’articulation du texte en anglais et en français
Wage Bargaining and the Phillips Curve
Most economists believe that wage-setting is very important for understanding macroeconomic behavior, but the form of wage equations commonly estimated suffer from problems of identification. The aim of this paper is to consider whether these problems are inevitable and, if they are not, to suggest ways in whi ch one can estimate structural models of wage-setting. It is argued that if one confines attention to models of wage bargaining t hat are …
The Effects of Minimum Wages on Wage Dispersion and Employment
Using data on Wages Council coverage from the United Kingdom New Earnings Survey, the authors examine the impact of mandated minimum wages on wage dispersion and employment in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. They find evidence that a dramatic decline in the toughness of the regulation imposed by the Wages Councils through the 1980s—a decline, that is, in the level of the minimum wage relative to the average wage—significantly contributed to wide…
Developments in Labour Market Theory and Their Implications for Macroeconomic Policy
The Equal Pay Act as an Experiment to Test Theories of the Labour Market
The UK Equal Pay Act of 1970 resulted in a large rise in the relative earnings of women in the early 1970s. As this change (unlike most wage changes) was largely exogenous to employers, one can think of this episode as an experiment for testing different theories of the labour market. Hence, study of the effects of the Equal Pay Act should be given considerable weight and is likely to have wider implications about the operation of labour markets.…
Employment and the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in Britain
Journal Article Employment and the Introduction of a Minimum Wage in Britain Get access Stephen Machin, Stephen Machin University College, London and London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Alan Manning Alan Manning University College, London and London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 436…
The continuity paradox and emergent linguistic structure
Editors’ Report
Oligopsony and Monopsonistic Competition in Labor Markets
We argue that models of oligopsony or monopsonistic competition provide insights and explanation for many empirical phenomena in labor markets. Using a simple model with job differentiation and preference heterogeneity, we illustrate how such models can be employed to explain the existence of wage dispersion, the persistence of labor market discrimination, market failures in the provision of training and the anomalous employment effects of minimu…
McJobs and MacJobs
There has been a large rise in the number of well paid jobs (MacJobs) in the UK over the past 25 years but also a rise in the number of badly paid jobs (McJobs). ‘Middling’ jobs have been disappearing. The most likely cause of these trends is technology with machines and computers replacing jobs that can be mechanised. The worst paid jobs (e.g. cleaning) cannot be done effectively by machines so employment in these occupations tends to rise. The …
Minimum Wage, Minimum Impact
The Low Pay Commission (LPC), acting on advice from the Office for National Statistics, initially estimated that some 1.9 million workers (8.5 per cent of employees) would have their pay raised by the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW). In the light of data problems this has been revised downwards a number of times and now stands at 1.2 million workers (5 per cent). This is still likely to be an over-estimate of the number of workers…
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