Professor Mike Brewer Director of MiSoC, 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.

View Mike's earlier publications

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Publications

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1. Reforms could increase child poverty

   Mike Brewer, James Browne, and Robert Joyce

   Interview - 12 Oct 2011

2. UK seeing a big rise in poverty, says IFS

   Mike Brewer, James Browne, and Robert Joyce

   Interview - 11 Oct 2011

Media

Displaying media publications 61 - 75 of 115 in total

1. Scottish independence: benefits should be UK-led

   Media - 11 Jun 2013

2. Better-off hit hardest by recession initially; poor feeling the squeeze now

   Media - 03 Jun 2013

3. Better-off suffered first but the poor now feel the recession biting

   Media - 03 Jun 2013

4. Scottish independence: experts chosen to draw up Scots welfare plans

   Media - 07 Jan 2013

5. No women on panel designing Scotland's new welfare system

   Media - 07 Jan 2013

6. Scottish independence: experts chosen to draw up Scots welfare plans

   Media - 07 Jan 2013

7. Scottish independence: experts to examine potential welfare system

   Media - 06 Jan 2013

8. Sturgeon unveils panel to find 'Scottish values' alternative to Westminster benefit cuts

   Media - 06 Jan 2013

9. Value judgements. What is the best measure of living standards, and does the value of housing play an important role?

   Media - 19 Nov 2012

10. Living standards report shows bleak future of a divided Britain: study says rich will get richer and the poor poorer after pounds 10bn welfare cuts

    Media - 28 Sep 2012

11. Report forecasts a growing jobs divide

    Media - 26 Sep 2012

12. Clegg must make a Left turn to save the Lib Dems from disaster

    Media - 26 Sep 2012

13. This pleb jibe exposes the Tories' Flashman thinking: Cameron and Mitchell rule for 'people like us'. The Lib Dems should never be complicit in their attacks on the poor

    Media - 25 Sep 2012

14. Nick Clegg must make a Left turn to save the Lib Dems from disaster; the party's voters won't allow a deal with the Tories in 2015 - it's time to make eyes at Labour

    Media - 25 Sep 2012

15. This pleb jibe exposes the Tories' Flashman thinking

    Media - 24 Sep 2012