Haroon Bhorat

Haroon Bhorat
Born Cape Town
Nationality South African
Institution University of Cape Town
Field Development economics
Labour economics
Alma mater University of Cape Town (BA)
Stellenbosch University (MA) (Ph.D.)

Haroon Bhorat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) at the University of Cape Town.[1] His area of research has concentrated on labour economics and poverty/income distribution mainly in his native South Africa, and recently, been expanded to other parts of Africa - in which he is world-renowned authority.

Early life and Education

Bhorat was born in Cape Town. Bhorat attended his high school at Diocesan College (Bishops) in Cape Town before proceeding to University for a BA (Honours) from University of Cape Town in 1991.[2] He then proceeded to obtain a Masters and Ph.D., both in Economics from Stellenbosch University in 1996 and 2003 respectively.[2][3]

Career

Bhorat advised Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe on economic matters serving on the Presidential Economic Advisory Panel.[3] He also advised the South African Treasury.

He joined the IZA as Research fellow in January 2013.[4]

Bhorat consults for a number of supranational organisations such as the World Bank, the UNDP, and the ILO to name a few.[3] He also works as a Non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings working on the Africa Growth Initiative programme.

Academic contributions

In a series of studies conducted with Murray Leibbrandt and Ingrid Woolard, race was a good predictor of vulnerability in the South African labour market.[5][6]

Bhorat has also conducted research on Sub-Saharan Africa economies' labour markets, where he finds a largely unenforced minimum wage laws riddled with complexity and vagueness.[7] Furthermore, the study finds that the minimum wage levels within Sub-Saharan Africa seem to be set at various levels relative to median wages, with largely negative impacts on employment levels within African countries.

Bibliography

Edited books

These are the edited books:

  • Haroon Bhorat; Finn Tarp, eds. (2016). Africa’s Lions: Growth Traps and Opportunities for Six African Economies. Brookings Institution Press. p. 270. ISBN 9780815729495.

Journal articles

Bhorat has written dozens of journal articles including:

  • Haroon Bhorat; James Hodge (1999). "Decomposing Shifts in Labour Demand in South Africa". South African Journal of Economics. 67 (3): 155–168. doi:10.1111/j.1813-6982.1999.tb01146.x.
  • Haroon Bhorat; Murray Leibbrandt; Ingrid Woolard (2000). "Understanding contemporary household inequality in South Africa". Journal for Studies in Economic and Econometrics. 24 (3): 31–52.
  • Haroon Bhorat; Ravi Kanbur; Natasha Mayet (2013). "The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa". IZA Journal of Labor & Development. 2 (1). doi:10.1186/2193-9020-2-1.

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Haroon Bhorat". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Haroon Bhorat" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on January 20, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "Haroon Bhorat". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Haroon Bhorat Research Fellow". Retrieved January 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ Haroon Bhorat; Murray Leibbrandt (1999). "Correlates of Vulnerability in the South African Labour Market" (PDF). DPRU Working Paper (99/27).
  6. ↑ Haroon Bhorat; Murray Leibbrandt; Ingrid Woolard. "Understanding Contemporary Household Inequality in South Africa". DPRU Working Paper (99/25). doi:10.2139/ssrn.943391.
  7. ↑ Haroon Bhorat; Ravi Kanbur; Benjamin Stanwix (2017). "Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer". The World Bank Research Observer. 32 (1): 21–74. doi:10.1093/wbro/lkw007.


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