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.

View Mike’s earlier publications

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Publications

Displaying all 2 publications

1. Household income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017

   Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Paul Fisher, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2019-07 - 19 Jul 2019 - download  
   1. Households
   2. Economics
   3. Income Dynamics

2. 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  

Media

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1. Covid generation: UK youth unemployment 'set to triple to 80s levels'

   Media - 07 Oct 2020
   1. Psychology
   2. Demography
   3. Social Change
   4. Labour Market
   5. Unemployment
   6. Economics
   7. Living Standards
   8. Public Policy
   9. Debt: Indebtedness
   10. Ethnic Groups
   11. Well Being
   12. Health
   13. Life Course Analysis
   14. Housing Market
   15. Social Behaviour
   16. Covid 19

2. Unemployment rate: how many people are out of work?

   Media - 11 Aug 2020
   1. Statistical Analysis
   2. Labour Market
   3. Unemployment
   4. Economics
   5. Public Policy
   6. Welfare Benefits
   7. Wages And Earnings
   8. Health
   9. Economic Policy
   10. Covid 19

3. Inequality in the OECD is at a record high – and society is suffering as a result

   Media - 02 Aug 2019

4. The rich v the rest: a rare peep at the finances of Britain’s 0.01%

   Media - 29 Jun 2019

5. Five reasons inequality is among the most pressing issues of our times

   Media - 22 Jun 2019

6. Almost two million adults will be £1,000 a year worse off under Universal Credit

   Media - 26 Apr 2019

7. Universal credit to see 1.9 million people lose more than £1,000 per year, IFS finds

   Media - 25 Apr 2019

8. Millions of claimants ‘will be poorer under universal credit’

   Media - 24 Apr 2019

9. Almost 2m people will lose £1,000 a year with universal credit – study

   Media - 24 Apr 2019

10. Universal Credit set to leave 1.9million people worse off by £1,000 a year

    Media - 24 Apr 2019

11. Childcare: do UK parents pay the most in the world?

    Media - 13 Feb 2018

12. Six-week wait for universal credit set to be reduced

    Media - 15 Nov 2017

13. Why are more men filing for divorce than ever before?

    Media - 19 Oct 2017

14. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

    Media - 02 Dec 2016

15. 30 hours of free childcare likely to boost parental employment only slightly

    Media - 01 Dec 2016