Professor Mike Brewer Director of MiSoC, University of Essex
- mbrewer@essex.ac.uk
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- 01206 873374
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- 2N2.5A.11
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- 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.
View Mike's earlier publications
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Publications
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Improving the measurement of income and spending in surveys
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Family instability throughout childhood: new estimates from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society
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The impact of free, universal pre-school education on maternal labour supply
Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.
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Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off?
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Starting school and leaving welfare: the impact of public education on lone parents’ welfare receipt
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The short and longer term impacts of the recession on the UK income distribution
Mike Brewer, James Browne, Robert Joyce, et al.
Media
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Universal credit pushes poor single parents into further poverty: new study for Gingerbread
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Working single parents will be worse off under universal credit
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Working single parents will be 'biggest losers' under universal credit
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Gingerbread report examines the effect of universal credit on single families
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Gingerbread: working single parents will be worse off under Universal Credit
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David Cameron’s flagship welfare reform was supposed to make work pay, instead he’s clobbering working parents - Reeves
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Universal credit must make work pay for single parents
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Credit crunched: single parents, universal credit and the struggle to make work pay
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Scottish Parliamentary diary
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Getting more single parents into work 'could save UK £436m a year'
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Spending review: single parents can play a role in growth
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Gingerbread calls for support to help single parents into work
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National media briefing...Gingerbread: charities in today's national news: getting more single parents into work could save the UK £436m a year
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Benefits could switch easily after Yes vote
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Benefits could switch easily after a Yes vote, say SNP expert group