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
The University of Cape Town (UCT) ( af, Universiteit van Kaapstad, xh, Yunibesithi ya yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university statu ...
. He is a South African academic economist studying labour markets, trends in inequality, and poverty in South Africa.
He is a fellow at the
IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
Education
He received a Bachelors in Economics from
Rhodes University in 1983.
He then proceeded to
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...
, where he read for Masters and doctorate degrees, graduating in 1986 and 1993 respectively.
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.
They show that race largely correlates with lower income and inequality,
and the reliance of
Gauteng
Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'.
Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...
, South Africa's economic hub, on migrant labour - to fill its chronic labour shortfall.
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.
References
External links
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Murray Leibbrandt UCT pageMurray Leibbrandt websiteMurray Leibbrandt Google Scholar page
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Rhodes University alumni
University of Notre Dame alumni
Academic staff of the University of Cape Town
Living people
20th-century South African economists
Labor economists
Development economists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century South African economists