Murray Leibbrandt

Murray Leibbrandt is professor, NRF Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research - and Director of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. He is a South African academic economist studying labour markets, trends in inequality, and poverty in South Africa.[1] He is a fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.[2]

Murray Leibbrandt
NationalitySouth African
InstitutionUniversity of Cape Town
FieldDevelopment economics
Labour economics
Alma materRhodes University (BA)
University of Notre Dame (MA) (Ph.D.)

Education

He bagged a Bachelors in Economics from Rhodes University in 1983.[3] He then proceeded to University of Notre Dame, where he read for Masters and doctorate degrees, graduating in 1986 and 1993 respectively.[3]

Academic career

In 1999, Leibbrandt with his colleagues - Ingrid Woolard and Haroon Bhorat - conducted a series of studies intended to study the dynamics of inequality in South Africa up to that point.[4][5][6] They show that race largely correlates with lower income and inequality,[4] and the reliance of Gauteng, South Africa's economic hub, on migrant labour - to fill its chronic labour shortfall.[5]

Leibbrandt is the Principal Investigator of South Africa’s national household panel survey, the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) - which was first published in 2008.[7][8][9][3]

References
  1. "UCT Page". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  2. "IZA Page". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  3. "Murray Leibbrandt CV". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  4. "Household Incomes, Poverty and Inequality in a Multivariate Framework". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  5. "Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  6. "Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market" (PDF). Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  7. "What is NIDS". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  8. "Murray Leibbrandt web page". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  9. "NIDS SALDRU team". Retrieved September 24, 2017.
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