| Murray Leibbrandt | |
| Nationality: | South African |
| 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]