Alan Manning  Alan Manning (born 1960) is a British economist and professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Manning is one of the leading labour economists in Europe, having made major contributions to e.g. the analysis of the imperfections of labour markets. Alan Manning studied from 1978 to 1981 at Clare College, Cambridge, and from 1981 to 1984 at Nuffield College, Oxford, obtaining a BA (Hons) and a M.Phil in economics before graduating with a DPhil in economics from Oxford University in 1985. After his MPhil, Manning began working at Birkbeck College as lecturer, a position that he held until 1989 when he moved to another lectureship at the London School of Economics. At LSE, he was promoted first to reader in 1993 and then to professor in 1997, a position he has held ever since. At LSE, Manning has been the Director of the Labour Markets and Community Programmes of the Centre for Economic Performance since 2000. Throughout his career, Manning has held editorial positions at the "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. Alan Manning's research concentrates on labour economics, with a focus on unemployment, minimum wages, monopsony, immigration and gender pay gaps in the UK and Europe. According to IDEAS/RePEc, Manning belongs to the top 1% of economists in terms of research output. In his research, Manning has been a frequent collaborator of Stephen Machin, another British labour economist. Manning's first area of research has been wage bargaining. This research included the integration of trade union models in a sequential bargaining framework, the relationship between the tax system and wage bargaining in the UK (with Ben Lockwood), and the impact of wage bargaining on the link between unemployment and inflation (the Phillips curve). In the late 1980s, in work with George Alogoskoufis, Manning argued that workers' reluctance to reduce their wage expectations, along with firms' slow adjustment of employment, was among the main reasons for persistently high European unemployment. In the late 1990s, Manning and Machin also investigated the topic of long-term unemployment. From the mid-1990s on, Manning turned his attention to the study of minimum wages, especially in the UK. Together with Stephen Machin, he found that decreases in the ratio of minimum wages to average wages in the UK in the 1980s had contributed to the growing wage dispersion without raising employment., a finding maintained in further work with Machin and Richard Dickens on the UK.