Professor Mike Brewer Professor of Economics, University of Essex
- mbrewer@essex.ac.uk
- Telephone
- 01206 873374
- Office
- 2N2.5A.11
- Personal homepage
- https://mikebrewereconomics.com/
Research Interests
- labour economics, and especially evaluating the impact of labour market or welfare interventions
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inequality, poverty and measuring household living standards
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microsimulation and labour supply modelling, especially of families with children
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dynamics of family formation, and impacts of parental separation
Mike’s main research interests are in how welfare benefits, labour market programmes, childcare provision and the tax system affects decisions made by households. He is also interested in poverty and inequality, and ways of measuring household living standards. He has been a long-time proponent of a simpler and more integrated welfare system, and his work on an integrated benefit system has been acknowledged as having informed current government policy.
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Latest Blog Posts
Publications
Displaying all 2 publications
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Household income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017
Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Paul Fisher, et al.
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Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 9: results from methodological experiments
Michaela Benzeval, Annamaria Bianchi, Mike Brewer, et al.
Media
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The role of the UK tax system in an anti-poverty strategy: new ISER report commissioned by JRF
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Separation effects: do women and children fare the worst financially after family separation?
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New ways of measuring poverty - Professor Mike Brewer describes ISER’s innovative approaches to analysing poverty data
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Why doesn’t a higher minimum wage help the poor more?
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Credit where taxes are due: reducing wage subsidies would hurt workers more than their employers
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Free childcare pledge needs full funding, experts warn
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Free nursery places have 'no educational benefit', research shows
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Free nursery places 'make no academic difference'
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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'Little impact' from nursery places
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Universal credit flaws make shorter hours better for some, says review
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Universal Credit ‘risks substantial cost to taxpayer’
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Free childcare for 3 year olds: no long term benefits for child development