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Murray Leibbrandt's Degrees

PhD Economics University of Cape Town
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According to Wikipedia, 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. He is a fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

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Trends in South African Income Distribution and Poverty since the Fall of Apartheid (2010) (595)
Measuring Poverty in South Africa (1999) (315)
Describing and decomposing post-apartheid income inequality in South Africa (2012) (253)
Measuring recent changes in South African inequality and poverty using 1996 and 2001 census data (2005) (171)
Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa. (2011) (169)
Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa (1999) (142)
The evolution and impact of unconditional cash transfers in South Africa (2010) (99)
Distance decay and persistent health care disparities in South Africa (2014) (98)
Household and community income, economic shocks and risky sexual behavior of young adults: evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005 (2007) (96)
The financial impact of HIV/AIDS on poor households in South Africa (2007) (96)
Social assistance, gender, and the aged in South Africa (2005) (85)
Modelling Vulnerability and Low Earnings in the South African Labour Market (1999) (82)
LINKING POVERTY AND INCOME SHOCKS TO RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR: EVIDENCE FROM A PANEL STUDY OF YOUNG ADULTS IN CAPE TOWN. (2008) (79)
Orphanhood and Schooling in South Africa: Trends in the Vulnerability of Orphans between 1993 and 2005 (2010) (77)
A comparison of poverty in South Africa's nine provinces (1999) (75)
Earnings and Employment Dynamics for Africans in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Panel Study of KwaZulu-Natal (2005) (74)
The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in the Rural Former Homelands of South Africa: A Decomposable Gini Analysis (2000) (71)
Measuring Inequality by Asset Indices: A General Approach with Application to South Africa (2017) (71)
Education and youth unemployment in South Africa (2008) (70)
1 EMPLOYMENT AND INEQUALITY OUTCOMES IN SOUTH AFRICA (2010) (67)
Towards a Poverty Line for South Africa: Background Note (2006) (67)
Labour force withdrawal of the elderly in South Africa (2005) (66)
The sensitivity of estimates of post- apartheid changes in South African poverty and inequality to key data imputations (2005) (66)
The sensitivity to key data imputations of recent estimates of income poverty and inequality in South Africa. (2006) (62)
The labour market and household income inequality in South Africa: existing evidence and new panel data (2001) (61)
Poverty and Inequality Dynamics in South Africa: Post-apartheid Developments in the Light of the Long-Run Legacy (2007) (61)
The Impact of AIDS on Intergenerational Support in South Africa: Evidence From the Cape Area Panel Study (2010) (58)
The contribution of income components to income inequality in South Africa : a decomposable Gini analysis (1996) (56)
Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market (1999) (55)
Fifteen Years on: Household Incomes in South Africa (2011) (54)
A poverty dynamics approach to social stratification: The South African case (2018) (50)
Demand for Healthcare Services in Nigeria: A Multivariate Nested Logit Model (2003) (49)
Education and inequality: The South African case (2012) (48)
The Policies for Reducing Income Inequality and Poverty in South Africa (2011) (48)
Unemployment in South Africa (2014) (48)
Incomes in South Africa after the Fall of Apartheid (2010) (47)
DETERMINANTS OF JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE KHAYELITSHA/MITCHELL'S PLAIN SURVEY (2006) (44)
Household Incomes, Poverty and Inequality in a Multivariate Framework (1999) (42)
Measuring and profiling financial literacy in South Africa (2018) (42)
Drivers of inequality in South Africa (2018) (41)
South African poverty lines: a review and two new money-metric thresholds (2015) (40)
Minimum Wages and Household Poverty: General Equilibrium Macro–Micro Simulations for South Africa (2012) (38)
Locked down and locked out: Repurposing social assistance as emergency relief to informal workers (2021) (38)
Distance as a barrier to health care access in South Africa (2013) (38)
What happened to multidimensional poverty in South Africa between 1993 and 2010 (2013) (38)
SAVINGS, INSURANCE AND DEBT OVER THE POST‐APARTHEID PERIOD: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH (2005) (37)
Household inequality and the labor market in South Africa (2001) (37)
Educational Attainment and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa, 1994-2010 (2013) (36)
Trends in teenage childbearing and schooling outcomes for children born to teens in South Africa (2013) (35)
Spatial poverty and inequality in South Africa: A municipality level analysis (2018) (35)
The dynamics of poverty in the first three waves of NIDS (2013) (33)
Income Mobility in South Africa: Evidence from the First Two Waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (2012) (32)
Free education and social inequality in Ugandan primary schools: A step backward or a step in the right direction? (2011) (31)
Income mobility in a high-inequality society: Evidence from the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (2014) (31)
Poverty, inequality, and prices in post-apartheid South Africa (2014) (30)
Migration and the changing rural-urban interface in South Africa: What can we learn from census and survey data? (2002) (30)
Health Outcomes for Children Born to Teen Mothers in Cape Town, South Africa (2015) (29)
Estimating the Effect of Adolescent Fertility on Educational Attainment in Cape Town Using a Propensity Score Weighted Regression (2011) (29)
The South African National Income Dynamics Study: Design and Methodological Issues (2010) (28)
THE CAPE AREA PANEL STUDY (2012) (28)
Changes in Income Poverty Over the Post-Apartheid Period: An Analysis Based on Data From the 1993 Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and the 2008 Base Wave of the National Income Dynamics Study (2010) (27)
Revisiting the ‘crisis’ in teen births: What is the impact of teen births on young mothers and their children? (2011) (27)
Financial services and the informal economy (2004) (26)
Poverty: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 Dataset (2009) (26)
The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment (2017) (26)
Changes in education, employment and earnings in South Africa: A cohort analysis (2013) (25)
Vulnerability and the middle class in South Africa (2016) (25)
Income inequality after apartheid (2004) (25)
Credit Constraints and the Racial Gap in Post-Secondary Education in South Africa (2013) (25)
Schooling Inequality, Returns to Schooling, and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Brazil and South Africa (2015) (24)
Measuring multidimensional poverty among youth in South Africa at the sub-national level (2016) (23)
The role of education and fertility in the participation and employment of African women in South Africa (2001) (23)
A focus on youth : An opportunity to disrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty (2015) (21)
Sequential regression multiple imputation for incomplete multivariate data using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2007) (20)
Patterns of persistence: Intergenerational mobility and education in South Africa (2016) (19)
Better employment to reduce inequality further in South Africa (2010) (19)
A Long‐run Perspective on Contemporary Poverty and Inequality Dynamics (2009) (19)
Individual Migration and Household Incomes (2016) (19)
Youth unemployment in South Africa: challenges, concepts and opportunities (2011) (18)
The influence of social transfers on labour supply: A South African and international review (2013) (18)
Labour Market: Analysis of the NIDS Wave 1 and 2 Datasets (2012) (17)
The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa (2018) (17)
Identity, Inequality, and Social Contestation in the Post-Apartheid South Africa (2018) (17)
New evidence on subjective well-being and the definition of unemployment in South Africa (2014) (16)
Are African workers getting ahead in the new South Africa? Evidence from KwaZulu‐Natal, 1993–1998 (2001) (16)
Social cohesion and inequality in South Africa (2018) (16)
Education Quality and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa (2013) (16)
Assessing the Impact of Social Grants on Inequality: A South African Case Study (2014) (15)
Educational Inheritance and the Distribution of Occupations: Evidence from South Africa (2013) (15)
Mobility and Inequality in the First Three Waves of NIDS (2013) (14)
Explaining the persistence of racial gaps in schooling in South Africa (2011) (13)
Winners and losers: South African labour-market dynamics between 2008 and 2010 (2014) (12)
Social stratification, life chances and vulnerability to poverty in South Africa (2017) (12)
In-Work Poverty in South Africa: The Impact of Income Sharing in the Presence of High Unemployment (2016) (12)
Relative Economic Position and Subjective Well-Being in a Poor Society: Does Relative Position Indicator Matter? (2018) (12)
Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa, 2008–2017 (2019) (11)
Post-apartheid poverty and inequality trends (2014) (11)
Evidence of short-term household change in South Africa from the National Income Dynamics Study (2013) (11)
The dynamics of poverty in South Africa (2017) (10)
Spatial inequality through the prism of a pandemic: Covid-19 in South Africa (2021) (10)
Multidimensional Youth Poverty: Estimating the Youth MPI in South Africa at ward level (2016) (9)
Poverty Amongst the Self-Employed (1998) (8)
Unemployment and Household formation (2013) (8)
The middle class and inequality in South Africa (2014) (8)
Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality (2013) (7)
Multidimensional Food Insecurity Measurement (2015) (7)
Inequality in South Africa and Brazil : Can we trust the numbers? (2012) (7)
Getting ahead or falling behind: Findings from the second wave of the National Income Dynamics Study (2014) (7)
Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID-19 and state-led remedial measures in South Africa (2021) (7)
Taking stock of South African income inequality (2018) (7)
Separate developments: The different effect of homeland policy on two Ciskei villages (1994) (7)
Which African Workers Have Gotten Ahead and by How Much? The Story of KwaZulu-Natal, South (2000) (7)
Inequality in the Developing World (2021) (7)
Housing, sanitation and living conditions affecting SARS-CoV-2 prevention interventions in 54 African countries (2021) (6)
Dynamics of Labor Market Entry and Youth Unemployment in South Africa: Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study (2007) (6)
Human Capital, Job Search, and Unemployment among Young People in South Africa (2010) (6)
Why Is Youth Unemployment So Intractable in South Africa? A Synthesis of Evidence at the Micro-Level (2020) (6)
Exploring psychological well-being and poverty dynamics in South-Africa: evidence from NIDS waves 1-5 (2018) (6)
The significant decline in poverty in its many dimensions since 1993 (2013) (6)
Snakes and Ladders and Loaded Dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008-2017 (2018) (5)
Parental loss and schooling: Evidence from metropolitan Cape Town (2009) (5)
Trade-Induced Employment Changes: Promising or Problematic for Poor Households in South Africa? (2007) (5)
Urban Poverty and Inequality in Kenya (2017) (4)
Numeric Literacy in South Africa: Report on the NIDS Wave 1 Numeracy Test (2010) (4)
Labour Market Restructuring and South Africa's Rural Homeland Communitiesin the 1980s (2011) (4)
How do the non-searching unemployed feel about their situation? On the definition of unemployment. (2013) (4)
The matric certificate is still valuable in the labour market (2015) (4)
Entry into and exit from informal enterprise ownership in South Africa: an analysis of the 2013 Survey of Employers and Self Employed and 2013 Quarterly Labour Force Survey (2016) (4)
Youth unemployment and social protection (2014) (3)
On the Welfare and Employment Effects of Economic Sanctions: Comment (1987) (3)
STRATEGIES OF THE UNEMPLOYED IN SOUTH AFRICA: DOES MOVING ALLOW THE UNEMPLOYED TO GET AHEAD? (2016) (3)
SOCIAL CLASS, LIFE CHANCES AND VULNERABILITY TO POVERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA (2017) (3)
Changes in Income Poverty over the Post-apartheid Period : An analysis Based on the 2008 National Income Dynamics Wave 1 Dateset (2012) (3)
Defining the Middle Class in the Global South. A Quantitative Perspective from South Africa (2017) (3)
Profiling Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality in Kenya and Zambia at Sub-National Levels (2017) (3)
Simulation of options to replace the special COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant and close the poverty gap at the food poverty line (2021) (3)
The Impact of Household Shocks on Adolescent School Outcomes in South Africa (2011) (3)
Woolard (eds)(2001) Fighting Poverty: labour markets and inequality in South Africa. Cape Town: UCT Press (2003) (3)
Snakes and ladders and loaded dice: Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008 and 2017 (2022) (3)
Piketty comes to South Africa. (2021) (2)
Fertility and mother's labour market behaviour: Evidence from the 2011 South African Census (2015) (2)
More financial aid is not the best way to close the racial gap in tertiary education (2014) (2)
Age, employment and labour force participation outcomes in COVID-era South Africa (2022) (2)
The dynamics of poverty in South Africa (updated) (2017) (2)
Social protection and labor market outcomes in South Africa: Employment and Youth Transitions to the Marketplace (2012) (2)
Does tenure insecurity explain the variations in land-related investment decisions in rural Ethiopia? (2015) (2)
African Workers Have Gotten Ahead and by How Much ? The Story of KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa , 1993-98 (2000) (2)
Introduction to the Special Edition on the South African National Income Dynamics Study (2010) (2)
WIDER Working Paper 2018/184 Taking stock of South African income inequality (2019) (2)
Pathways to food security in South Africa: Food quality and quantity in NIDS Wave 1 (2016) (2)
CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit ASSET-BASED VERSUS MONEY METRIC POVERTY INDICES IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN ASSESSMENT USING THE CHRONIC POVERTY RESEARCH CENTRE RSA 2002 SURVEY (2005) (1)
Spatial inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (2022) (1)
Socioeconomic-Related Inequalities in COVID-19 Vulnerability in South Africa (2022) (1)
Weakly relative poverty lines in developing countries: The case of South Africa (2015) (1)
Relative Economic Position and Subjective Well-Being in a Poor Society: Does Relative Position Indicator Matter? (2017) (1)
UPE and social inequality in Uganda: A step backward or a step in the right direction? (2009) (1)
Duration of unemployment in youth transitions from schooling to work in Cape Town (2015) (1)
South Africa (2021) (1)
Returns to English skills in the South African labour market (2019) (1)
Reinstating the Importance of Categorical Inequities in South Africa (2023) (1)
13 Synthesis and Policy Implications (2021) (0)
Income mobility in a high-inequality society: Evidence from the first two waves of NIDS (2014) (0)
South Africa The Top End, Labour Markets, Fiscal Redistribution, and the Persistence of Very High Inequality (2021) (0)
Notes and Comments: Rethinking Socialist Economics (1987) (0)
WIDER Working Paper 2014/160 Assessing the impact of social grants on inequality: A South African case study (2014) (0)
Cash transfers in South Africa : what do we know? (2010) (0)
Murray Leibbrandt UPE and Social Inequality in Uganda : A Step Backward or a Step in the Right Direction ? (2009) (0)
Developing a Multidimensional Youth Employability Index to unpack vulnerabilities in the lived realities of youth in Post-apartheid South Africa (2019) (0)
REDI 3 x 3 Working paper 30 March 2017 Patterns of persistence : Intergenerational mobility and education in South Africa (2017) (0)
Inequality in South Africa (2021) (0)
Defining the ‘ middle class ’ in an unequal and poverty stricken society (2016) (0)
WIDER Working Paper 2018/162: Drivers of inequality in South Africa (2018) (0)
Ninth Annual Conference on Econometric Modelling for Africa, School of Economics, University of Cape Town, 2004 (2006) (0)
Snakes and Ladders and Loaded Dice : Poverty dynamics and inequality in South Africa between 2008-2017 NIDS (2019) (0)
Assessing the usability of the Western Cape Graduate Destination Survey for the analysis of labour market outcomes (2017) (0)
Synthesis and Policy Implications (0)
Inequalit y in Sou th Africa (2021) (0)
determinants of South Africans moving into and out of poverty over the first four waves of the National Income Dynamics (2016) (0)
Setting the Scene (0)
Introduction to Special Edition (2000) (0)
WIDER Working Paper 2018/83: The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South Africa (2018) (0)
Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit by Martin Wittenberg and Murray Leibbrandt Measuring Inequalit y by Asset Indices : A general approach with application to South Africa (2015) (0)
Entry into and Exit from Informal Sector Ownership in South Africa (2018) (0)
Social programs and transfers: Are we learning? (2013) (0)
Patterns of Poverty in South Africa : A Mixed-Methods Investigation (2017) (0)
Urban Poverty and Inequality in Kenya (2017) (0)
Youth Bulges and Youth Unemployment in Developing Countries (2014) (0)
Chapter Seventeen. Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality (2020) (0)

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