Mark L Bryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 281550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark L Bryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark L |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryan |
| SIGNATURE | BRYAN M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5000-8946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 355 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The geography of the disability employment gap: A new decomposition of spatial variation
Disabled people fare particularly badly when living in areas that are economically and socially disadvantaged; they therefore have the most to gain from distributing national prosperity more equally. The disability employment gap in Britain (2014–19) was 31 percentage points (pp), but ranged from 17 pp to 43 pp locally. Using novel techniques to decompose spatial variation in the gap into ‘people’ and ‘place’ effects, we find that the key drivers…
Do all job changes increase wellbeing
We provide a comprehensive framework, based on person–environment fit, for evaluating the relationship between types of job change and wellbeing, and estimate it using fixed‐effects methods applied to UK longitudinal data. Changing job is associated with large swings in job satisfaction, but not all job changes are equal. Changes in workplace are associated with increased job satisfaction only when they are associated with a change in job role. T…
Mycoplasma bovis and the liminal journey of southern New Zealand farmers
This qualitative study explored the impact of the 2017 Mycoplasma bovis incursion and its management on farmers in southern New Zealand. Eighteen farmers and farming couples were interviewed about their experiences. Analysis of interview data evoked van Gennep's notion of liminality with its journey through distinct phases associated with ambiguity, confusion and uncertainty. Farmers described separation from usual farming practices during the in…
Life satisfaction and unemployment—The role of gender attitudes and work identity
Unemployment has a strong negative effect on subjective well‐being, but the effect varies across groups. Using an event study approach, we explore the sources of heterogeneity in the effect of the transition into unemployment on life satisfaction, focusing on work identity and gender role attitudes. All experience a loss of life satisfaction when they become unemployed, but we find greater heterogeneity of experience among men: the losses in life…
Mental Health and Employment: A Bounding Approach Using Panel Data
The effect of mental health on employment is a key policy question, but reliable causal estimates are elusive. Exploiting panel data and extending recent techniques using selection on observables to provide information on selection along unobservables, we estimate that transitioning into poor mental health leads to a 1.6% point reduction in the probability of employment; approximately 10% of the raw employment gap. Selection into mental health is…
The psychosocial impact of Mycoplasma bovis on southern New Zealand farmers: The human cost of managing an exotic animal disease incursion
Employment related Covid-19 exposure risk among disabled people in the UK
We provide new evidence about the work-related exposure of disabled people to COVID-19 using household survey data combined with a novel occupational risk indicator. Despite their higher clinical vulnerability, disabled people in employment in the UK were significantly more likely to be going out to work during the pandemic rather than working from home, and were working in occupations that were more exposed to COVID-19 than the occupations of no…
No better or worse off”: Mycoplasma bovis, farmers and bureaucracy
Provider or Father? British Men's Work Hours and Work Hour Preferences after the Birth of a Child
This study uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to analyse the effect of fatherhood on men's work hours and work hour preferences. Past research indicates that British men follow the traditional male provider model by either not changing or increasing their working hours when they have fathered a child, but these previous findings are primarily based on descriptive or cross-sectional analyses. Longitudinal a…
Multilevel Modelling of Country Effects: A Cautionary Tale
Country effects on outcomes for individuals are often analysed using multilevel (hierarchical) models applied to harmonized multi-country data sets such as ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We point out problems with the assessment of country effects that appear not to be widely appreciated, and develop our arguments using Monte Carlo simulation analysis of multilevel linear and logit models. With large sample sizes of individuals within each c…
Access to Flexible Working and Informal Care
We use matched employer–employee data to explore the relationship between employees’ access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 13% more hours of informal care. Workplaces do not respond to the presence of carers by providing flexible work, instead there is some underlying selection o…
Income, Deprivation and Poverty: A Longitudinal Analysis
Indices of material deprivation are of increasing interest in Britain and the EU as potential markers of poverty, as an alternative, or complement, to measures of low income. This is the first panel regression analysis of the relationship between households' incomes and deprivation scores over time. We show a close underlying link (people with long-term low incomes report long-term deprivation), but only a weak dynamic link (people whose income i…
Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wage Distribution
Using harmonized data for the years 1995–2001 from the European Community Household Panel, the authors analyze gender pay gaps by sector across the wage distribution in eleven countries. In estimations that control for the effects of individual characteristics at different points of the distribution, they calculate the part of the gap attributable to differing returns between men and women. The magnitude of the gender pay gap, thus measured, vari…
Testing Some Predictions of Human Capital Theory: New Training Evidence from Britain
We confront the predictions of various theories with new training data from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that employer-financed training is associated with significantly higher wages at current and future firms, with a larger impact in future firms. This is consistent with human capital theory with credit constraints and with the new training literature assuming imperfectly competitive labor markets
Training and the New Minimum Wage
Using the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate the impact of the national minimum wage, introduced in April 1999, on the work‐related training of low‐wage workers. We use two 'treatment groups'– those workers who explicitly stated they were affected by the new minimum and those workers whose derived 1998 wages were below the minimum. Using difference‐in‐differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introd…
The Union Membership Wage-Premium Puzzle: Is There a Free Rider Problem
Economists have long suggested that labor unions suffer a free rider problem. The argument is that, since union-set wages are available to all workers covered by unions irrespective of their union status, and union membership entails costs, workers will only join if they are coerced or are offered non-wage goods that they value above membership costs. Yet U.S. and British empirical research has found a substantial union membership wage premium am…
Physical Characteristics of Near-Shore Ice Ridges
Investigations of the morphology and composition of near-shore ice ridges were conducted on the southern shore of Lake Superior near Grand Marais, Michigan, and at other Great Lakes locations during 1970 and 1971. Data are given for ice densities, sediment load, temperature and internal arrangements of ice forms. A cross-sectional map of the gross structure of one ice ridge is also presented. The basic internal appearance of the ridges is similar…
Multilevel Modelling of Country Effects: A Cautionary Tale
Country effects on outcomes for individuals are often analysed using multilevel (hierarchical) models applied to harmonized multi-country data sets such as ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We point out problems with the assessment of country effects that appear not to be widely appreciated, and develop our arguments using Monte Carlo simulation analysis of multilevel linear and logit models. With large sample sizes of individuals within each c…
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wage Distribution
Using harmonized data for the years 1995–2001 from the European Community Household Panel, the authors analyze gender pay gaps by sector across the wage distribution in eleven countries. In estimations that control for the effects of individual characteristics at different points of the distribution, they calculate the part of the gap attributable to differing returns between men and women. The magnitude of the gender pay gap, thus measured, vari…
Income, Deprivation and Poverty: A Longitudinal Analysis
Indices of material deprivation are of increasing interest in Britain and the EU as potential markers of poverty, as an alternative, or complement, to measures of low income. This is the first panel regression analysis of the relationship between households' incomes and deprivation scores over time. We show a close underlying link (people with long-term low incomes report long-term deprivation), but only a weak dynamic link (people whose income i…
Provider or Father? British Men's Work Hours and Work Hour Preferences after the Birth of a Child
This study uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to analyse the effect of fatherhood on men's work hours and work hour preferences. Past research indicates that British men follow the traditional male provider model by either not changing or increasing their working hours when they have fathered a child, but these previous findings are primarily based on descriptive or cross-sectional analyses. Longitudinal a…
The Union Membership Wage-Premium Puzzle: Is There a Free Rider Problem
Economists have long suggested that labor unions suffer a free rider problem. The argument is that, since union-set wages are available to all workers covered by unions irrespective of their union status, and union membership entails costs, workers will only join if they are coerced or are offered non-wage goods that they value above membership costs. Yet U.S. and British empirical research has found a substantial union membership wage premium am…
Training and the New Minimum Wage
Using the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate the impact of the national minimum wage, introduced in April 1999, on the work‐related training of low‐wage workers. We use two 'treatment groups'– those workers who explicitly stated they were affected by the new minimum and those workers whose derived 1998 wages were below the minimum. Using difference‐in‐differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introd…
No better or worse off”: Mycoplasma bovis, farmers and bureaucracy
Mycoplasma bovis and the liminal journey of southern New Zealand farmers
This qualitative study explored the impact of the 2017 Mycoplasma bovis incursion and its management on farmers in southern New Zealand. Eighteen farmers and farming couples were interviewed about their experiences. Analysis of interview data evoked van Gennep's notion of liminality with its journey through distinct phases associated with ambiguity, confusion and uncertainty. Farmers described separation from usual farming practices during the in…
Life satisfaction and unemployment—The role of gender attitudes and work identity
Unemployment has a strong negative effect on subjective well‐being, but the effect varies across groups. Using an event study approach, we explore the sources of heterogeneity in the effect of the transition into unemployment on life satisfaction, focusing on work identity and gender role attitudes. All experience a loss of life satisfaction when they become unemployed, but we find greater heterogeneity of experience among men: the losses in life…
The psychosocial impact of Mycoplasma bovis on southern New Zealand farmers: The human cost of managing an exotic animal disease incursion
Access to Flexible Working and Informal Care
We use matched employer–employee data to explore the relationship between employees’ access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 13% more hours of informal care. Workplaces do not respond to the presence of carers by providing flexible work, instead there is some underlying selection o…
Physical Characteristics of Near-Shore Ice Ridges
Investigations of the morphology and composition of near-shore ice ridges were conducted on the southern shore of Lake Superior near Grand Marais, Michigan, and at other Great Lakes locations during 1970 and 1971. Data are given for ice densities, sediment load, temperature and internal arrangements of ice forms. A cross-sectional map of the gross structure of one ice ridge is also presented. The basic internal appearance of the ridges is similar…
Training and the New Minimum Wage
Using the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate the impact of the national minimum wage, introduced in April 1999, on the work‐related training of low‐wage workers. We use two 'treatment groups'– those workers who explicitly stated they were affected by the new minimum and those workers whose derived 1998 wages were below the minimum. Using difference‐in‐differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introd…
The Union Membership Wage-Premium Puzzle: Is There a Free Rider Problem
Economists have long suggested that labor unions suffer a free rider problem. The argument is that, since union-set wages are available to all workers covered by unions irrespective of their union status, and union membership entails costs, workers will only join if they are coerced or are offered non-wage goods that they value above membership costs. Yet U.S. and British empirical research has found a substantial union membership wage premium am…
Testing Some Predictions of Human Capital Theory: New Training Evidence from Britain
We confront the predictions of various theories with new training data from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that employer-financed training is associated with significantly higher wages at current and future firms, with a larger impact in future firms. This is consistent with human capital theory with credit constraints and with the new training literature assuming imperfectly competitive labor markets
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wage Distribution
Using harmonized data for the years 1995–2001 from the European Community Household Panel, the authors analyze gender pay gaps by sector across the wage distribution in eleven countries. In estimations that control for the effects of individual characteristics at different points of the distribution, they calculate the part of the gap attributable to differing returns between men and women. The magnitude of the gender pay gap, thus measured, vari…
Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution
Income, Deprivation and Poverty: A Longitudinal Analysis
Indices of material deprivation are of increasing interest in Britain and the EU as potential markers of poverty, as an alternative, or complement, to measures of low income. This is the first panel regression analysis of the relationship between households' incomes and deprivation scores over time. We show a close underlying link (people with long-term low incomes report long-term deprivation), but only a weak dynamic link (people whose income i…
Access to Flexible Working and Informal Care
We use matched employer–employee data to explore the relationship between employees’ access to flexible working arrangements and the amount of informal care they provide to sick or elderly friends and relatives. Flexitime and the ability to reduce working hours are each associated with about 13% more hours of informal care. Workplaces do not respond to the presence of carers by providing flexible work, instead there is some underlying selection o…
Multilevel Modelling of Country Effects: A Cautionary Tale
Country effects on outcomes for individuals are often analysed using multilevel (hierarchical) models applied to harmonized multi-country data sets such as ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We point out problems with the assessment of country effects that appear not to be widely appreciated, and develop our arguments using Monte Carlo simulation analysis of multilevel linear and logit models. With large sample sizes of individuals within each c…
Provider or Father? British Men's Work Hours and Work Hour Preferences after the Birth of a Child
This study uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to analyse the effect of fatherhood on men's work hours and work hour preferences. Past research indicates that British men follow the traditional male provider model by either not changing or increasing their working hours when they have fathered a child, but these previous findings are primarily based on descriptive or cross-sectional analyses. Longitudinal a…
Employment related Covid-19 exposure risk among disabled people in the UK
We provide new evidence about the work-related exposure of disabled people to COVID-19 using household survey data combined with a novel occupational risk indicator. Despite their higher clinical vulnerability, disabled people in employment in the UK were significantly more likely to be going out to work during the pandemic rather than working from home, and were working in occupations that were more exposed to COVID-19 than the occupations of no…
No better or worse off”: Mycoplasma bovis, farmers and bureaucracy
Mental Health and Employment: A Bounding Approach Using Panel Data
The effect of mental health on employment is a key policy question, but reliable causal estimates are elusive. Exploiting panel data and extending recent techniques using selection on observables to provide information on selection along unobservables, we estimate that transitioning into poor mental health leads to a 1.6% point reduction in the probability of employment; approximately 10% of the raw employment gap. Selection into mental health is…
The psychosocial impact of Mycoplasma bovis on southern New Zealand farmers: The human cost of managing an exotic animal disease incursion
Life satisfaction and unemployment—The role of gender attitudes and work identity
Unemployment has a strong negative effect on subjective well‐being, but the effect varies across groups. Using an event study approach, we explore the sources of heterogeneity in the effect of the transition into unemployment on life satisfaction, focusing on work identity and gender role attitudes. All experience a loss of life satisfaction when they become unemployed, but we find greater heterogeneity of experience among men: the losses in life…
Mycoplasma bovis and the liminal journey of southern New Zealand farmers
This qualitative study explored the impact of the 2017 Mycoplasma bovis incursion and its management on farmers in southern New Zealand. Eighteen farmers and farming couples were interviewed about their experiences. Analysis of interview data evoked van Gennep's notion of liminality with its journey through distinct phases associated with ambiguity, confusion and uncertainty. Farmers described separation from usual farming practices during the in…
Do all job changes increase wellbeing
We provide a comprehensive framework, based on person–environment fit, for evaluating the relationship between types of job change and wellbeing, and estimate it using fixed‐effects methods applied to UK longitudinal data. Changing job is associated with large swings in job satisfaction, but not all job changes are equal. Changes in workplace are associated with increased job satisfaction only when they are associated with a change in job role. T…
The geography of the disability employment gap: A new decomposition of spatial variation
Disabled people fare particularly badly when living in areas that are economically and socially disadvantaged; they therefore have the most to gain from distributing national prosperity more equally. The disability employment gap in Britain (2014–19) was 31 percentage points (pp), but ranged from 17 pp to 43 pp locally. Using novel techniques to decompose spatial variation in the gap into ‘people’ and ‘place’ effects, we find that the key drivers…
Economics (15 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Labour economics (7 works) · Econometrics (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Work (physics (5 works)