Dr Silvia Avram Research Fellow, University of Essex

Email

savram@essex.ac.uk

Telephone

01206 874824

Office

2N2.5A.09

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

Displaying publications 1 - 15 of 30 in total

1. The NMW/NLW and progression out of minimum wage jobs in the UK interim report: a report prepared for the Low Pay Commission

   Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

   Report - Nov 2018
   1. Labour Market
   2. Economics
   3. Public Policy
   4. Wages And Earnings

2. 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

3. Who benefits from the ‘hidden welfare state’? The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure in six countries

   Silvia Avram

   Journal Article, Journal of European Social Policy - 31 Dec 2017
   1. Households
   2. Welfare Benefits
   3. Income Dynamics
   4. Microsimulation
   5. Taxation

4. Labour outcomes and family background: evidence from the EU during the Recession

   Silvia Avram and Olga Canto

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2017-15 - 14 Dec 2017 - download  
   1. Human Capital
   2. Labour Market
   3. Unemployment
   4. Economics
   5. Social Stratification

5. Social assistance performance in Central and Eastern Europe: a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison

   Silvia Avram

   Journal Article, Journal of European Social Policy - Dec 2016
   1. Households
   2. Poverty
   3. Welfare Benefits
   4. Social Policy

6. 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

   Silvia Avram and Eva Militaru

   Journal Article, Social Indicators Research - Sep 2016
   1. Demography
   2. Poverty
   3. Welfare Benefits
   4. Microsimulation
   5. Taxation

7. Accounting for gender differences in the distributional effects of tax and benefit policy changes

   Silvia Avram, Daria Popova, and Olga Rastrigina

   EUROMOD Working Paper Series, EM7/16 - 24 Aug 2016 - download  
   1. Welfare Benefits
   2. Household Economics
   3. Microsimulation
   4. Taxation

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

   Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

   Research Paper, IFS Working Paper Series, W16/11 - Jul 2016
   1. Disability
   2. Labour Market
   3. Unemployment
   4. Childbearing: Fertility
   5. Welfare Benefits

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

   Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

   Research Paper, IZA Discussion Papers, 10106 - Jul 2016
   1. Disability
   2. Labour Market
   3. Unemployment
   4. Childbearing: Fertility
   5. Welfare Benefits

10. The effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on work incentives and poverty in Lithuania

    Jekaterina Navicke, Silvia Avram, and Lilas Demmou

    Research Paper, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1310 - Jul 2016
    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Poverty
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Microsimulation
    6. Taxation
    7. Social Policy

11. Benefit Losses Loom Larger than Taxes: The Effects of Framing and Loss Aversion on Behavioural Responses to Taxes and Benefits

    Silvia Avram

    ISER Working Paper Series, 2015-17 - 20 Aug 2015 - download  

12. What can international comparisons teach us about school choice and non-governmental schools in Europe?

    Jaap Dronkers and Silvia Avram

    Journal Article, Comparative Education - 2015
    1. Education
    2. Public Policy
    3. Government

13. 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

    Silvia Avram and Eva Militaru

    EUROMOD Working Paper Series, EM4/15 - 04 Mar 2015 - download  
    1. Demography
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

14. The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure

    Silvia Avram

    ISER Working Paper Series, 2014-26 - 15 Jul 2014 - download  
    1. Microsimulation
    2. Taxation

15. The distributional effects of personal income tax expenditure

    Silvia Avram

    EUROMOD Working Paper Series, EM14/14 - 04 Jul 2014 - download  
    1. Microsimulation
    2. Taxation

Media

Displaying 1 media publications

1. Low Pay Commission publishes research on the effects of the minimum wage on employment and automation

   Media - 01 Feb 2019