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/

Curriculum vitae

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

Displaying publications 1 - 15 of 79 in total

1. Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents

   Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

   Journal Article, Labour Economics - Apr 2018
   1. Disability
   2. Labour Market
   3. Unemployment
   4. Childbearing: Fertility
   5. Welfare Benefits

2. How taxes and welfare benefits affect work incentives: a life-cycle perspective

   Mike Brewer and Jonathan Shaw

   Journal Article, Fiscal Studies - Mar 2018
   1. Labour Market
   2. Economics
   3. Welfare Benefits
   4. Taxation
   5. Life Course Analysis

3. Inference with difference-in-differences revisited

   Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, and Robert Joyce

   Journal Article, Journal of Econometric Methods - Jan 2018
   1. Statistical Mathematics
   2. Econometrics

4. Progression and retention in the labour market: what have we learned from IWC and ERA?

   Mike Brewer and Jonathan Cribb

   Research Paper, IFS Briefing Notes, BN220 - 30 Oct 2017
   1. Lone Parents
   2. Labour Market
   3. Unemployment
   4. Public Policy
   5. Welfare Benefits
   6. Taxation

5. Why are households that report the lowest incomes so well-off?

   Mike Brewer, Ben Etheridge, and Cormac O'Dea

   Journal Article, Economic Journal - Oct 2017
   1. Poverty
   2. Living Standards
   3. Income Dynamics
   4. Household Economics

6. Universal remedy: ensuring Universal Credit is fit for purpose

   Mike Brewer, David Finch, and Daniel Tomlinson

   Report - Oct 2017
   1. Unemployment
   2. Economics
   3. Poverty
   4. Public Policy
   5. Welfare Benefits

7. The National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage and the tax and benefit system

   Mike Brewer and Paola De Agostini

   Report - Oct 2017
   1. Labour Economics
   2. Households
   3. Poverty
   4. Public Policy
   5. Welfare Benefits
   6. Income Dynamics
   7. Wages And Earnings
   8. Taxation

8. Improving the measurement of income and spending in surveys

   Mike Brewer

   Conference Paper, Understanding Society Scientific Conference 2017, 11-13 July 2017, University of Essex, Colchester, UK - 12 Jul 2017
   1. Survey Methodology
   2. Household Economics
   3. Finance

9. Understanding Society Innovation Panel Wave 9: results from methodological experiments

   Michaela Benzeval, Annamaria Bianchi, Mike Brewer, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2017-07 - 07 Jul 2017 - download  

10. Universal pre-school and labor supply of mothers

    Mike Brewer and Sarah Cattan

    Journal Article, ifo DICE Report - 2017
    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Caregiving

11. Lone parents, time-limited in-work credits and the dynamics of work and welfare

    Mike Brewer and Jonathan Cribb

    ISER Working Paper Series, 2017-01 - 27 Jan 2017 - download  
    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits

12. Refining the bootstrap methodology for HBAI statistics

    Mike Brewer, Olga Gdula, and Robert Joyce

    Research Paper, IFS Mimeo - Jan 2017
    1. Statistical Mathematics
    2. Poverty
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Surveys

13. Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, W16/22 - Dec 2016
    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

14. Does free childcare help parents work?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    Report, IFS Briefing Notes, BN189 - Dec 2016
    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

15. Free childcare and parents’ labour supply: is more better?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 10415 - Dec 2016
    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Public Policy
    4. Household Economics
    5. Caregiving

Media

Displaying media publications 106 - 110 of 110 in total

1. Brown 'will miss targets on reducing child poverty'

   Media - 18 Feb 2009

2. Majority of children living in poverty have at least one parent in work, says study

   Media - 18 Feb 2009

3. Billions needed to meet child poverty target, warns Joseph Rowntree Foundation

   Media - 18 Feb 2009

4. Child poverty pledge needs extra £4.2bn

   Media - 18 Feb 2009

5. Investment needed to tackle child poverty

   Media - 18 Feb 2009