Murray Leibbrandt | |
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Nationality | South African |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Cape Town |
Field |
Development economics Labour economics |
Alma mater |
Rhodes University (BA) University of Notre Dame (MA) (Ph.D.) |
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]
He received 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]
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]
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Murray Leibbrandt | |
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Nationality | South African |
Academic career | |
Institution | University of Cape Town |
Field |
Development economics Labour economics |
Alma mater |
Rhodes University (BA) University of Notre Dame (MA) (Ph.D.) |
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]
He received 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]
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]
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