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.
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Publications
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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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Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents
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How taxes and welfare benefits affect work incentives: a life-cycle perspective
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Inference with difference-in-differences revisited
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Progression and retention in the labour market: what have we learned from IWC and ERA?
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Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off?
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Universal remedy: ensuring Universal Credit is fit for purpose
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The National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage and the tax and benefit system
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Improving the measurement of income and spending in surveys
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Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 9: results from methodological experiments
Michaela Benzeval, Annamaria Bianchi, Mike Brewer, et al.
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Universal pre-school and labor supply of mothers
Media
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If the Tories won't cut middle-class benefits...then they certainly shouldn't be planning a £25 billion raid on the poorest in Britain
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Why Gran is better than nursery at teaching a child to talk
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Children looked after by their grandparents often develop better than those put in nurseries
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Working women key to rise in living standards
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Tories discover poverty at least, but is it all in the family?
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Inequality in the UK: the data behind the National Equality
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Ending child poverty in a changing economy
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Child poverty research
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Brown 'will miss targets on reducing child poverty'
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Majority of children living in poverty have at least one parent in work, says study
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Billions needed to meet child poverty target, warns Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Child poverty pledge needs extra £4.2bn
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Investment needed to tackle child poverty