Mike Brewer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3605210 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mike Brewer |
| NOMBRES | Mike |
| APELLIDO | Brewer |
| FIRMA | BREWER M |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0759-0384 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017
We study the volatility of sources of individual and household level income in the UK in the years 2009-2017, following the Great Recession and government austerity. We find that the volatility of (pre-tax) earnings and disposable income has fallen for the working-age in this period, largely due to fewer negative and large earnings shocks. For older individuals, we also find a fall in the volatility of private income, mainly due to fewer positive…
Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09491-w
The curious incidence of rent subsidies
This paper provides new evidence on the incidence of rent subsidies. We use administrative panel data on subsidy recipients in the UK and exploit a natural experiment in which entitlements were cut for about a million households. In the short-run, about 90% of the incidence of the cuts is found to be on tenants. We also uncover an important dimension of heterogeneity in the balance of incidence between tenants and their landlords. We find that th…
Why are Households that Report the Lowest Incomes So Well-off
We document that households in the UK with extremely low measured income tend to spend much more than those with merely moderately low income. This phenomenon is evident throughout three decades worth of microdata and across different employment states, levels of education and marital statuses. Of the likely explanations, we provide several arguments that discount over‐reporting of expenditure and argue that under‐reporting of income plays the ma…
Accounting for Changes in Income Inequality
We analyse income inequality in the UK from 1978 to 2009 in order to understand why income inequality rose very rapidly from 1978 to 1991 but then remained broadly unchanged. We find that inequality in earnings among employees has risen fairly steadily since 1978, but other factors that caused income inequality to rise before 1991 have since gone into reverse. Inequality in investment and pension income has fallen since 1991, as has inequality be…
Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited
Why Did Britain's Households Get Richer? Decomposing UK Household Income Growth between 1968 and 2008-09
Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK
Optimal Income Taxation of Lone Mothers
Optimal tax rules are used to evaluate the optimality of taxation for lone mothers in Germany and Britain. The theoretical model is combined with elasticities derived from the structural estimation of lone mothers' labour supply. For both countries we do not find that in-work credits with marginal tax rates are optimal. However we show that when the government has a low taste for redistribution, out-of-work transfers and transfer for the working …
Feature
In the past two decades, a number of industrialised countries – including the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand – have witnessed an increasing reliance on in‐work support through tax credits and work‐conditioned transfers as a means of providing cash assistance to low‐income families with children. These Governments have used tax credits in an attempt to alleviate poverty without creating adverse incentives for participation in the labour market…
Racing Away? Income Inequality and the Evolution of High Incomes
The poverty trade-off
Can we reconcile the conflict between policies to help people on low incomes by providing direct financial support and those which encourage them to earn more? Two of the strategies used by governments to help people on low incomes – providing direct financial support and encouraging them to earn more – generally conflict. Drawing on large-scale survey data from thousands of individuals and families spanning the last 26 years, this report from th…
What Really Happened to Child Poverty in the UK under Labour's First Term
Child poverty in Britain fell in Labour's first term, though by much less than micro-simulation exercises suggested. Nonetheless, the decline is statistically significant, and is greater if measured just in the last 6 months of 2000/1, rather than the whole year. The decline also proves robust to the choice of poverty line, although that which the Government has emphasised (60% of contemporary income) shows a somewhat bigger drop than any other t…
Cardiac Physiology of Polar Bears in Winter Dens
Results of winter 1967-68 and 1968-69 measurements by radio-capsules implanted in two polar bears indicate that this species is capable of reducing circulatory activity in dormancy in the same way as the grizzly and black bear. Sleeping heart rates of initially 60 beats/min changed slowly week by week to 27/min
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel
Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are less well off. But inequalities in people's economic positions are also related to their characteristics - whether they are men or women, their ages, ethnic backgrounds, and so on. The independent National Equality Panel, was establ…
Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK
Why are Households that Report the Lowest Incomes So Well-off
We document that households in the UK with extremely low measured income tend to spend much more than those with merely moderately low income. This phenomenon is evident throughout three decades worth of microdata and across different employment states, levels of education and marital statuses. Of the likely explanations, we provide several arguments that discount over‐reporting of expenditure and argue that under‐reporting of income plays the ma…
What Really Happened to Child Poverty in the UK under Labour's First Term
Child poverty in Britain fell in Labour's first term, though by much less than micro-simulation exercises suggested. Nonetheless, the decline is statistically significant, and is greater if measured just in the last 6 months of 2000/1, rather than the whole year. The decline also proves robust to the choice of poverty line, although that which the Government has emphasised (60% of contemporary income) shows a somewhat bigger drop than any other t…
Optimal Income Taxation of Lone Mothers
Optimal tax rules are used to evaluate the optimality of taxation for lone mothers in Germany and Britain. The theoretical model is combined with elasticities derived from the structural estimation of lone mothers' labour supply. For both countries we do not find that in-work credits with marginal tax rates are optimal. However we show that when the government has a low taste for redistribution, out-of-work transfers and transfer for the working …
Feature
In the past two decades, a number of industrialised countries – including the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand – have witnessed an increasing reliance on in‐work support through tax credits and work‐conditioned transfers as a means of providing cash assistance to low‐income families with children. These Governments have used tax credits in an attempt to alleviate poverty without creating adverse incentives for participation in the labour market…
Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09491-w
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017
We study the volatility of sources of individual and household level income in the UK in the years 2009-2017, following the Great Recession and government austerity. We find that the volatility of (pre-tax) earnings and disposable income has fallen for the working-age in this period, largely due to fewer negative and large earnings shocks. For older individuals, we also find a fall in the volatility of private income, mainly due to fewer positive…
Cardiac Physiology of Polar Bears in Winter Dens
Results of winter 1967-68 and 1968-69 measurements by radio-capsules implanted in two polar bears indicate that this species is capable of reducing circulatory activity in dormancy in the same way as the grizzly and black bear. Sleeping heart rates of initially 60 beats/min changed slowly week by week to 27/min
What Really Happened to Child Poverty in the UK under Labour's First Term
Child poverty in Britain fell in Labour's first term, though by much less than micro-simulation exercises suggested. Nonetheless, the decline is statistically significant, and is greater if measured just in the last 6 months of 2000/1, rather than the whole year. The decline also proves robust to the choice of poverty line, although that which the Government has emphasised (60% of contemporary income) shows a somewhat bigger drop than any other t…
The poverty trade-off
Can we reconcile the conflict between policies to help people on low incomes by providing direct financial support and those which encourage them to earn more? Two of the strategies used by governments to help people on low incomes – providing direct financial support and encouraging them to earn more – generally conflict. Drawing on large-scale survey data from thousands of individuals and families spanning the last 26 years, this report from th…
Racing Away? Income Inequality and the Evolution of High Incomes
Optimal Income Taxation of Lone Mothers
Optimal tax rules are used to evaluate the optimality of taxation for lone mothers in Germany and Britain. The theoretical model is combined with elasticities derived from the structural estimation of lone mothers' labour supply. For both countries we do not find that in-work credits with marginal tax rates are optimal. However we show that when the government has a low taste for redistribution, out-of-work transfers and transfer for the working …
Feature
In the past two decades, a number of industrialised countries – including the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand – have witnessed an increasing reliance on in‐work support through tax credits and work‐conditioned transfers as a means of providing cash assistance to low‐income families with children. These Governments have used tax credits in an attempt to alleviate poverty without creating adverse incentives for participation in the labour market…
Does welfare reform affect fertility? Evidence from the UK
Why Did Britain's Households Get Richer? Decomposing UK Household Income Growth between 1968 and 2008-09
Inference with Difference-in-Differences Revisited
Accounting for Changes in Income Inequality
We analyse income inequality in the UK from 1978 to 2009 in order to understand why income inequality rose very rapidly from 1978 to 1991 but then remained broadly unchanged. We find that inequality in earnings among employees has risen fairly steadily since 1978, but other factors that caused income inequality to rise before 1991 have since gone into reverse. Inequality in investment and pension income has fallen since 1991, as has inequality be…
Why are Households that Report the Lowest Incomes So Well-off
We document that households in the UK with extremely low measured income tend to spend much more than those with merely moderately low income. This phenomenon is evident throughout three decades worth of microdata and across different employment states, levels of education and marital statuses. Of the likely explanations, we provide several arguments that discount over‐reporting of expenditure and argue that under‐reporting of income plays the ma…
The curious incidence of rent subsidies
This paper provides new evidence on the incidence of rent subsidies. We use administrative panel data on subsidy recipients in the UK and exploit a natural experiment in which entitlements were cut for about a million households. In the short-run, about 90% of the incidence of the cuts is found to be on tenants. We also uncover an important dimension of heterogeneity in the balance of incidence between tenants and their landlords. We find that th…
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017
We study the volatility of sources of individual and household level income in the UK in the years 2009-2017, following the Great Recession and government austerity. We find that the volatility of (pre-tax) earnings and disposable income has fallen for the working-age in this period, largely due to fewer negative and large earnings shocks. For older individuals, we also find a fall in the volatility of private income, mainly due to fewer positive…
Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-021-09491-w
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK - Report of the National Equality Panel
Britain is an unequal country, more so than many other industrial countries and more so than a generation ago. This is manifest in many ways - most obviously in the gap between those who are well off and those who are less well off. But inequalities in people's economic positions are also related to their characteristics - whether they are men or women, their ages, ethnic backgrounds, and so on. The independent National Equality Panel, was establ…
Economics (13 obras) · Demographic economics (11 obras) · Labour economics (11 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras) · Global Health Care Issues (5 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 obras) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (4 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (4 obras) · Inequality (4 obras)