Professor Mike Brewer Professor of Economics, University of Essex
- mbrewer@essex.ac.uk
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- 01206 873374
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- 2N2.5A.11
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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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Publications
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An intergenerational audit for the UK 2020
Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.
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Jobs, jobs, jobs: evaluating the effects of the current economic crisis on the UK labour market
Mike Brewer, Nye Cominetti, Kathleen Henehan, et al.
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All together now? The impacts of the Government’s coronavirus income support schemes across the age distribution
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A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit
Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.
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The truth will out: understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis
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The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes
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Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?
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In-work credits in the UK and the US
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The curious incidence of rent subsidies: evidence of heterogeneity from administrative data
Mike Brewer, James Browne, Carl Emmerson, et al.
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Household income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017
Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Paul Fisher, et al.
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Top incomes in the UK: analysis of the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes
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What do we know and what should we do about inequality?
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What do we really know about the employment effects of the UK’s National Minimum Wage?
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Universal credit and its impact on household incomes: the long and the short of it
Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.
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The return to work and how it is taxed: a dynamic perspective
Mike Brewer, Mike Brewer, Monica Costa Dias, et al.
Media
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To share in a recovery, we'll need to rethink how our society works
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A fairer future: we need to avert this polarisation of Britain
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A tale of two Britains - economic revival won't reduce wealth gap
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Lowest incomes set to fall by 15%
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Lowest incomes set to fall by 15%
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We need to avert this polarisation of Britain
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Report predicts 15% drop in income
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Report predicts 15% drop in income
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End of decade living standards lower than 2008
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Come on you local councillors. Resist these cuts!
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PA headlines at 7am: report predicts 15% drop in income
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Living standards report shows bleak future of a divided Britain
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Labour's child poverty effort was exceptional, says Mike Brewer
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Child poverty gains at risk, says study
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Labour's effort to cut child poverty was exceptional