Alan Manning

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Alan Manning
Born1960 (age 63–64)
NationalityBritish
Academic career
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
Birkbeck, University of London
FieldLabour economics
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
Nuffield College, Oxford
Doctoral
advisor		James Mirrlees[1]
ContributionsMinimum wage, gender pay gap, monopsony
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Alan Manning (born 1960) is a British economist and professor of economics at the London School of Economics.[2]

Manning is one of the leading labour economists globally,

labour markets, the minimum wage literature, migration, and job polarization.[4]

Education

Alan Manning studied from 1978 to 1981 at

Oxford University
in 1985.

Later life and career

After his MPhil, Manning began working at

Review of Economic Studies, Labour Economics, New Economy, Economica, Journal of Labor Economics, Applied Economics Journal, and European Economic Review. His contributions to labour economics were rewarded with a fellowship of the Society of Labor Economists in 2014. He was elected fellow of the European Economic Association in 2021.[5]

Research

Alan Manning's research concentrates on

IDEAS/RePEc, Manning belongs to the top 1% of economists in terms of research output.[7] In his research, Manning has been a frequent collaborator of Stephen Machin
, another British labour economist.

Research on wages, wage bargaining and unemployment

Manning's first area of research has been wage bargaining. This research included the integration of trade union models in a sequential bargaining framework,

long-term unemployment.[12]

Research on minimum wages

From the mid-1990s on, Manning turned his attention to the study of

wage share, finding that, on average, privatization accounts for a firth of the decrease in labour's share between 1980 and 2000, but for nearly half in Britain and France.[19]

Research on imperfect competition in labour markets

Since the 1990s, Manning has researched the impact of employers' market power in labour markets and its impact on especially wages, e.g. in the UK.[20] This research agenda was popularized in a JEP article by Manning, Bhaskar and To,[21] research on modern monopsonies in the UK,[22] and, perhaps most importantly, in Monopsony in Motion,[23] a book that comprehensively sets out Manning's thinking about modern monopsonies in labour markets and was received with mixed reviews by other economists.[24][25] A comprehensive survey of imperfect competition in the labour market by Manning was published in the Handbook of Labor Economics.[26]

Research on gender in labour markets

Another important field in Manning's research are gender-specific issues in labour market outcomes. Together with Azmat and Maia Guell, Manning shows that, in countries with large gender gaps in unemployment rates, there also are large gender gaps in flows between employment and unemployment, possibly due to the combination of gender differences in human capital and its interaction with labour market institutions.[27] In a study with Barbara Petrongolo on the part-time pay penalty for women in the UK, Manning attributes half of the penalty to differences in the characteristics of female full-time and part-time workers, especially occupational segregation, which also explains most of its growth in the 1980s and 1990s.[28] Finally, in work with Joanna Swaffield, Manning has also studied the gender gap in early-career wage growth in the UK.[29]

Research on job polarization

A more recent field of Manning's research is the study of technological change and job polarization. In the mid-2000s, in the wake of research by Autor, Levy and Murnane, Manning argued that the demand for the least-skilled jobs may be growing, albeit dependent on the physical proximity to the more-skilled.[30] In his most highly cited publication, together with Maarten Goos, Manning showed that the UK had experienced since 1975 a pattern of polarization with rises in employment shares in the highest- and lowest-wage occupations and a "hollowing out" of medium-wage occupations, a pattern consistent with Autor et al.'s "routinization" hypothesis; for the 1970s to the 1990s, this polarization accounts for, respectively, half and one third of the growth in wage inequality in the upper and lower parts of the UK wage distribution.[31] This finding – the concentration of employment in low- and high-paid jobs with high non-routine task contents – was maintained in further research by Manning and Goos with Anna Salomons on overall Europe,[32] wherein routine-biased technological change and offshoring play key roles.[33]

Research on immigration and identity

One of Manning's most recent research endeavours concerns the analysis of immigration and identity. For instance, together with Dustmann, Glitz and Algan, he found that in the UK, France and partly also in Germany, the gap between natives and immigrants in terms of educational achievement decreases over generations, though overall in all three countries the labour market performance of most immigrant groups as well as their descendants is still generally worse than that of natives, even if differences in education, regional allocation and experience are taken into account.[34] In research with Sanchari Roy on the extent and determinants of British identity, he found that "the vast majority of those born in Britain, of whatever ethnicity or religion, think of themselves as British", while "newly arrived immigrants almost never think of themselves as British but the longer they remain in the UK, the more likely it is that they do".[35] Finally, in a study with Marco Manacorda and Jonathan Wadsworth on the impact of immigration to the UK on the structure of wages, Manning found that immigration primarily reduced the wages of immigrants – and in particular university-educated immigrants – with little effect on the wages of the native-born, suggesting that UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes.[36]

Bibliography

  • Manning, Alan (2003). Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    ISBN 0691113122

References

  1. ^ "Alan Manning - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  2. ^ Profile of Alan Manning on the website of LSE. Retrieved April 6th, 2019.
  3. ^ Manning belongs to the top 1% of labour economists worldwide registered on IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved February 24th, 2023.
  4. ^ Manning, Alan. "Personal webpage". Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  5. ^ "Fellows | EEA". www.eeassoc.org. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  6. ^ Profile of Alan Manning on the website of LSE. Retrieved April 6th, 2019.
  7. ^ Manning ranks among the top 1% of authors registered on IDEAS/RePEc. Retrieved April 6th, 2019.
  8. JSTOR 2233326
    .
  9. doi:10.1016/0047-2727(93)90102-Y
    .
  10. JSTOR 2234339
    .
  11. JSTOR 1344492
    .
  12. ISBN 9780444501899
    .
  13. JSTOR 2524423
    .
  14. S2CID 7012497
    .
  15. JSTOR 2946650
    .
  16. JSTOR 1344707
    .
  17. JSTOR 40005144
    .
  18. S2CID 122822481
    .
  19. S2CID 56258974
    .
  20. S2CID 7012497
    .
  21. doi:10.1257/0895330027300
    .
  22. doi:10.1016/S0927-5371(03)00018-6
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  23. ^ Manning, A. (2003). Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  24. S2CID 17512305
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  25. S2CID 157695999
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  26. ISBN 9780444534521
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  27. S2CID 154573165
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  28. S2CID 153810424
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  29. S2CID 154780633
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  30. S2CID 153742036
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  31. S2CID 27727245
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  32. JSTOR 25592375
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  33. S2CID 32890608
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  34. S2CID 18592276
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  35. S2CID 154180076
    .
  36. S2CID 13921268
    .

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