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University of Essex

Professor Mike Brewer Director of MiSoC, University of Essex

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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

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    1. Improving the measurement of income and spending in surveys

      Mike Brewer

      1. Survey Methodology
      2. Household Economics
      3. Finance

    2. Family instability throughout childhood: new estimates from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society

      Mike Brewer and Alita Nandi

      1. Lone Parents
      2. Social Change
      3. Young People
      4. Family Formation And Dissolution

    3. The impact of free, universal pre-school education on maternal labour supply

      Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

      1. Education
      2. Child Development
      3. Labour Economics
      4. Public Policy
      5. Caregiving

    4. Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off?

      Mike Brewer, Ben Etheridge, and Cormac O'Dea

    5. Starting school and leaving welfare: the impact of public education on lone parents’ welfare receipt

      Mike Brewer and Claire Crawford

    6. The short and longer term impacts of the recession on the UK income distribution

      Mike Brewer, James Browne, Robert Joyce, et al.

    Media

    Displaying media publications 46 - 60 of 118 in total

    1. Universal credit pushes poor single parents into further poverty: new study for Gingerbread

    2. Working single parents will be worse off under universal credit

    3. Working single parents will be 'biggest losers' under universal credit

    4. Gingerbread report examines the effect of universal credit on single families

    5. Gingerbread: working single parents will be worse off under Universal Credit

    6. David Cameron’s flagship welfare reform was supposed to make work pay, instead he’s clobbering working parents - Reeves

    7. Universal credit must make work pay for single parents

    8. Credit crunched: single parents, universal credit and the struggle to make work pay

    9. Scottish Parliamentary diary

    10. Getting more single parents into work 'could save UK £436m a year'

    11. Spending review: single parents can play a role in growth

    12. Gingerbread calls for support to help single parents into work

    13. National media briefing...Gingerbread: charities in today's national news: getting more single parents into work could save the UK £436m a year

    14. Benefits could switch easily after Yes vote

    15. Benefits could switch easily after a Yes vote, say SNP expert group

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