Dr Silvia Avram Research Fellow, University of Essex
- savram@essex.ac.uk
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- 01206 874824
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I am a social scientist working at the intersection of social policy analysis, labour and public economics. My research interests centre on economic inequality and the role of public policies and institutions in shaping it. I am also interested in applying behavioural economics to the analysis of public policy. Some of the topics that I'm currently working on or have worked on in the past include:
- the impact of taxes and transfers on income inequality and poverty
- income and earnings volatility and uncertainty
- wage progression out of low paid work
- the gender income gap
- tax framing
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Publications
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Labour market flexibility and unemployment duration: evidence from the UK
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Zero-hours contracts: flexibility or insecurity? Experimental evidence from a low income population
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Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? Evidence from eight European countries
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The impact of minimum wage upratings on wage growth and the wage distribution. A report prepared for the Low Pay Commission
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Household income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017
Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Paul Fisher, et al.
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Understanding Society and its income data
Paul Fisher, Laura Fumagalli, Nick Buck, et al.
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The NMW/NLW and progression out of minimum wage jobs in the UK interim report: a report prepared for the Low Pay Commission
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Who benefits from the ‘hidden welfare state’? The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure in six countries
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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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Labour outcomes and family background: evidence from the EU during the Recession
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Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison
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Interactions between policy effects, population characteristics and the tax-benefit system: an illustration using child poverty and child related policies in Romania and the Czech Republic
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Accounting for gender differences in the distributional effects of tax and benefit policy changes
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The effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on work incentives and poverty in Lithuania
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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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