Dr Silvia Avram Research Fellow, University of Essex
- savram@essex.ac.uk
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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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Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents
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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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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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Can’t work or won’t work: quasi-experimental evidence on work search requirements for single parents
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Benefit Losses Loom Larger than Taxes: The Effects of Framing and Loss Aversion on Behavioural Responses to Taxes and Benefits
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What can international comparisons teach us about school choice and non-governmental schools in Europe?
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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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The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure
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The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure
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Income redistribution in the European Union