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 38 in total

1. Does a high minimum wage make it harder for minimum wage workers to progress?

   Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

   Report, MiSoC Explainers - Dec 2020
   1. Labour Market
   2. Labour Economics
   3. Economics
   4. Public Policy
   5. Wages And Earnings

2. Hours and pay insecurity in the UK labour market

   Silvia Avram

   Report - Nov 2020
   1. Labour Market
   2. Labour Economics
   3. Unemployment
   4. Economics
   5. Welfare Benefits
   6. Wages And Earnings

3. Labour market flexibility and unemployment duration: evidence from the UK

   Silvia Avram

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2020-11 - 05 Oct 2020
   1. Labour Market
   2. Unemployment
   3. Economics
   4. Wages And Earnings

4. Zero-hours contracts: flexibility or insecurity? Experimental evidence from a low income population

   Silvia Avram

   ISER Working Paper Series, 2020-10 - 15 Sep 2020
   1. Labour Market
   2. Labour Economics
   3. Economics
   4. Welfare Benefits
   5. Income Dynamics
   6. Wages And Earnings

5. Do welfare state taxes and transfers reduce gender income inequality? Evidence from eight European countries

   Silvia Avram and Daria Popova

   EUROMOD Working Paper Series, EM9/20 - 28 May 2020
   1. Economics
   2. Welfare Benefits
   3. Income Dynamics
   4. Microsimulation
   5. Taxation
   6. Social Policy

6. The impact of minimum wage upratings on wage growth and the wage distribution. A report prepared for the Low Pay Commission

   Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

   Report - Nov 2019
   1. Area Effects
   2. Regional Economics
   3. Geography
   4. Labour Market
   5. Labour Economics
   6. Economics
   7. Public Policy
   8. Wages And Earnings

7. 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

8. Understanding Society and its income data

   Paul Fisher, Laura Fumagalli, Nick Buck, et al.

   Understanding Society Working Paper Series, 2019-08 - 18 Jul 2019 - download  
   1. Households
   2. Research
   3. Income Dynamics
   4. Surveys

9. 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. Labour Economics
   3. Economics
   4. Public Policy
   5. Wages And Earnings

10. 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 - Jul 2018
    1. Households
    2. Welfare Benefits
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Microsimulation
    5. Taxation

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

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