Professor Mike Brewer Professor of Economics, University of Essex

Email

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

• inequality, poverty and measuring household living standards

• microsimulation and labour supply modelling, especially of families with children

• 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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Publications

Displaying all 2 publications

1. Household income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017

   Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Paul Fisher, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2019-07 - 19 Jul 2019 - download  
   1. Households
   2. Economics
   3. Income Dynamics

2. Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 9: results from methodological experiments

   Michaela Benzeval, Annamaria Bianchi, Mike Brewer, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2017-07 - 07 Jul 2017 - download  

Media

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1. The role of the UK tax system in an anti-poverty strategy: new ISER report commissioned by JRF

   Media - 30 Aug 2016

2. Separation effects: do women and children fare the worst financially after family separation?

   Media - Jan 2016

3. New ways of measuring poverty - Professor Mike Brewer describes ISER’s innovative approaches to analysing poverty data

   Media - 30 Sep 2015

4. Why doesn’t a higher minimum wage help the poor more?

   Media - 15 Jul 2015

5. Credit where taxes are due: reducing wage subsidies would hurt workers more than their employers

   Media - 04 Jul 2015

6. Free childcare pledge needs full funding, experts warn

   Media - 01 Jun 2015

7. Free nursery places have 'no educational benefit', research shows

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

8. Free nursery places 'make no academic difference'

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

9. 'Little impact' from nursery places

   Media - 30 Mar 2015

10. 'Little impact' from nursery places

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

11. 'Little impact' from nursery places

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

12. 'Little impact' from nursery places

    Media - 30 Mar 2015

13. Universal credit flaws make shorter hours better for some, says review

    Media - 10 Mar 2015

14. Universal Credit ‘risks substantial cost to taxpayer’

    Media - 10 Mar 2015

15. Free childcare for 3 year olds: no long term benefits for child development

    Media - 22 Oct 2014