Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL Social Research Institute https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/54820-alex-bryson
Economics
39%
Public Health
17%
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Why is it that union membership density is rising in Japan? Find out here in our new Hitotsubashi Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/Common/publi... @sriucl.bsky.social @hitotsubashiu.bsky.social
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society invites submissions to a special issue examining reasons for gender wage gaps around the world and policy responses to them.
Extended abstracts due April 3.
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Extended abstracts due April 3.
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Our new paper examines the productivity dynamics of union locals in the USA. We show inter-union competition is not effective in raising productivity and effects of creative destruction are weak. Check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @sriucl.bsky.social
Why is the Mental Health of the Youngest American Workers in Decline?
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The young report lower job quality than other workers in the USA potentially contributing to their declining mental health. But other factors (employment selection and changing work orientations) may be at play www.nber.org/papers/w34696 @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
The changing nature of work: What can we learn from time use diaries? - ESCoE
This webinar will present new ONS time diary data to examine remote work and its relationship to time use, well-being, and self-perceived productivity.
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Interested in the experiences of working from home versus at the workplace during and after COVID? Watch this @escoeorg.bsky.social webinar from @francescafolia1.bsky.social with discussion by me www.escoe.ac.uk/events/the-c... @sriucl.bsky.social
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society – Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Call for Papers Special Issue on “The Gender Wage Gap” Notwithstanding a closure in the educational attainment gap between men and women in most countries, and
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Working on the gender wage gap? We have a new call for papers for a Special Issue of IR Berkeley. Check it out here: irle.berkeley.edu/publications... @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
The U-shape of wellbeing – high when we’re young, then falling, and rising after middle age – was “among the most striking, persistent patterns in social science ... But this is no longer true” – new blog by @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social @xiaoweixu.bsky.social @theifs.bsky.social
The disappearance of the hump shape in illbeing by age - Understanding Society
Lifetime happiness trend changes as youth mental health suffers. It’s long been established that happiness makes a U-shape over our lifetimes
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Using UKHLS we show the changing age profile of mental ill-health is driven by rising mental ill-health among the young @sriucl.bsky.social
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The disappearance of the hump shape in illbeing by age - Understanding Society
Lifetime happiness trend changes as youth mental health suffers. It’s long been established that happiness makes a U-shape over our lifetimes
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
The U-shape of wellbeing – high when we’re young, then falling, and rising after middle age – was “among the most striking, persistent patterns in social science ... But this is no longer true” – new blog by @dannyblanchy.bsky.social @alexbryson.bsky.social @xiaoweixu.bsky.social @theifs.bsky.social
In our new paper on Eastern Europe and Central Asia we find no decline in the mental health of the young relative to older people which characterizes Western Europe and English-speaking countries onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Dec 22
An Evaluation of Biases in Wellbeing Estimates Using Interviewers Versus Online Data Collection in the Global Flourishing Study
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In our new @nberthe.bsky.social paper we illustrate the importance of accounting for survey mode in well-being research. Check it out here: www.nber.org/papers/w3459... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Dec 3
Rising Young Worker Despair in the United States
Between the early 1990s and 2015 the relationship between mental despair and age was hump-shaped in the United States: it rose in middle-age, then dec…
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It's rising despair among young workers that's changing the age profile of poor mental health in the United States. Check out our new paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @undp.org @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Reposted by Alice Sullivan, Tim Morris
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Using genetic data to address economic and social issues with birth cohort data
Join this one-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic and social issues with birth cohort data.
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Come join us @sriucl.bsky.social on December 12 for our workshop on the use of genetic data in birth cohorts to examine social and economic questions. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Sneak preview of IR Berkeley's first edition for 2026. Five Open Access papers on strikes, wage mark ups and downs, educational mismatch and discrimination in hiring @ucberkeleyirle.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Nov 5
Opinion | For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment
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Jessica Grose’s nice piece citing our new research: For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o... @sriucl.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Oct 6
Not Flourishing
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Focusing on the 22 countries in the Global Flourishing Study we find not flourishing is highest among women and the young. We emphasise the importance of accounting for survey mode when examining wellbeing and illbeing. www.nber.org/papers/w3432... @sriucl.bsky.social @dannyblanchy.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Oct 2
Labour market tightness and union activity
Join this event to hear Patrick Nuess explore the effect of changes in aggregate labour market tightness on union membership, union elections, and strikes.
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Patrick Neuss will be presenting at our QSS-CLS seminar on 22 October @sriucl.bsky.social Find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Life satisfaction in Western Europe and the gradual vanishing of the U-shape in age - Academia.edu
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Labour market prospects are key to understanding the North-South divide in young Europeans' life satisfaction. Find out more here: www.academia.edu/2997-9196/2/... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 12
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Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi and UTokyo) and I provide the first evidence on trade union effects on firm-level wages and productivity for developing countries using World Bank Enterprise Data. Download our new discussion paper here: www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/Common/publi... @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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The middle-age misery "hump" has disappeared worldwide – why?
Research from @alexbryson.bsky.social with Dartmouth and @theifs.bsky.social suggests that increasing mental health challenges for young people are shifting the curve.
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Research from @alexbryson.bsky.social with Dartmouth and @theifs.bsky.social suggests that increasing mental health challenges for young people are shifting the curve.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/aug/...
Reposted by Alex Bryson
Thanks a lot for hosting @alexbryson.bsky.social!
Really looking forward to the exchange and to seeing some of my coauthors in person again. 😄
If anyone is in London and up for a coffee or a pint, let me know! ☕🍺
Really looking forward to the exchange and to seeing some of my coauthors in person again. 😄
If anyone is in London and up for a coffee or a pint, let me know! ☕🍺
Alex Bryson
@alexbryson.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Job search under changing labour taxes
Workers’ job mobility decisions are related to firms’ wage policies but also depend on tax schedules. Using Norwegian population-wide administrative l…
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Higher wages reduce job separation rates but the effect weakens when taxes rise implying higher taxes reduce job search activity. Download our new paper free here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sriucl.bsky.social @uclsociology.bsky.social