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]

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]

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External links[]

• Murray Leibbrandt UCT page
• Murray Leibbrandt website
• Murray Leibbrandt Google Scholar page