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

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1. What do we know and what should we do about inequality?

   Mike Brewer

   Book, - Jun 2019
   1. Economics
   2. Public Policy
   3. Income Dynamics
   4. Savings And Assets
   5. Social Stratification

Media

Displaying media publications 46 - 60 of 120 in total

1. Osborne 'faces big cuts challenge'

   Media - 05 Feb 2014

2. Opinion: who will the recession hurt most?

   Media - Jan 2014

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

   Media - 30 Oct 2013

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

   Media - 30 Oct 2013

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

   Media - 30 Oct 2013

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

   Media - 30 Oct 2013

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

   Media - 30 Oct 2013

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

   Media - 30 Oct 2013

9. Universal credit must make work pay for single parents

   Media - 30 Oct 2013

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

    Media - Oct 2013

11. Scottish Parliamentary diary

    Media - 30 Sep 2013

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

    Media - 26 Jun 2013

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

    Media - 26 Jun 2013

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

    Media - 26 Jun 2013

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

    Media - 26 Jun 2013