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  1. Does more free childcare help parents work more?

    Mike Brewer, Sarah Cattan, Claire Crawford, et al.

    1. Education
    2. Labour Market
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Caregiving

  2. Household earnings and income volatility in the UK, 2009-2017

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

    1. Households
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Wages And Earnings

  3. An intergenerational audit for the UK 2020

    Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.

    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

  4. Jobs, jobs, jobs: evaluating the effects of the current economic crisis on the UK labour market

    Mike Brewer, Nye Cominetti, Kathleen Henehan, et al.

    1. Labour Market
    2. Unemployment
    3. Economics
    4. Public Policy
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

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

    Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.

    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

  6. All together now? The impacts of the Government’s coronavirus income support schemes across the age distribution

    Mike Brewer and Karl Handscomb

    1. Labour Market
    2. Public Policy
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Wages And Earnings
    6. Household Economics
    7. Health
    8. Economic Policy
    9. Covid 19

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

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    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

  8. A method for decomposing the impact of reforms on the long-run income distribution, with an application to universal credit

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Poverty
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Income Dynamics
    6. Taxation
    7. Life Course Analysis
    8. Surveys

  9. The truth will out: understanding labour market statistics during the coronavirus crisis

    Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner, and Karl Handscomb

    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

  10. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Health
    10. Microsimulation
    11. Taxation
    12. Covid 19

  11. The initial impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on household incomes

    Mike Brewer and Laura Gardiner

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Living Standards
    6. Public Policy
    7. Welfare Benefits
    8. Income Dynamics
    9. Wages And Earnings
    10. Health
    11. Covid 19

  12. Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?

    Mike Brewer and Iva Valentinova Tasseva

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Unemployment
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits
    7. Income Dynamics
    8. Wages And Earnings
    9. Health
    10. Microsimulation
    11. Taxation
    12. Covid 19

  13. In-work credits in the UK and the US

    Mike Brewer and Hilary Hoynes

    1. Labour Market
    2. Households
    3. Economics
    4. Poverty
    5. Public Policy
    6. Welfare Benefits

  14. The curious incidence of rent subsidies: evidence of heterogeneity from administrative data

    Mike Brewer, James Browne, Carl Emmerson, et al.

    1. Economics
    2. Housing Market

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

    Mike Brewer and Claudia Samano Robles

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

    Mike Brewer and Claudia Samano Robles

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

    Mike Brewer and Claudia Samano Robles

  18. Top incomes in the UK: analysis of the 2015-16 Survey of Personal Incomes

    Mike Brewer and Claudia Samano Robles

    1. Demography
    2. Economics
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Taxation
    6. Surveys

  19. What do we know and what should we do about inequality?

    Mike Brewer

    1. Economics
    2. Public Policy
    3. Income Dynamics
    4. Savings And Assets
    5. Social Stratification

  20. What do we really know about the employment effects of the UK’s National Minimum Wage?

    Mike Brewer, Thomas Crossley, and Federico Zilio

    1. Labour Market
    2. Wages And Earnings

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

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

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

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

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

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

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

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

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

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

  26. Universal credit and its impact on household incomes: the long and the short of it

    Mike Brewer, Robert Joyce, Tom Waters, et al.

    1. Households
    2. Poverty
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Income Dynamics
    5. Taxation
    6. Life Course Analysis

  27. The return to work and how it is taxed: a dynamic perspective

    Mike Brewer, Mike Brewer, Monica Costa Dias, et al.

    1. Human Capital
    2. Human Capital
    3. Labour Market
    4. Labour Market
    5. Taxation
    6. Taxation

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

    Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, and Andrea Salvatori

    1. Disability
    2. Labour Market
    3. Unemployment
    4. Childbearing: Fertility
    5. Welfare Benefits

  29. How taxes and welfare benefits affect work incentives: a life-cycle perspective

    Mike Brewer and Jonathan Shaw

    1. Labour Market
    2. Economics
    3. Welfare Benefits
    4. Taxation
    5. Life Course Analysis

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

    Mike Brewer

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