Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of education and schooling
on income inequality in Pakistan. The study applies GiniCoefficient technique to calculate the income inequality in
Pakistan using data from Pakistan Social and Living Standard
Measurement (PSLM) Survey of 2004-05 of the Federal
Bureau of Statistics (FBS) Islamabad. The results show that
the distribution of income between male and female labor
force was found to be unequal. The inequality was higher in
males as compared to females. The value of the GiniCoefficient for rural and urban areas shows that income
inequality was more in urban areas (0.341) as compared to
rural areas (0.261), while the value of the Gini-Coefficient for
the whole of Pakistan remained 0.301. The results of the study
indicate that education and schooling do affect the
distribution of income in favor of the people with more
education. Therefore, the study implies that equal opportunity
of schooling and employment should be provided to male and
female without any discrimination.
Muhammad Farooq. (2015) Education and Income Inequality in Pakistan, The Dialogue, Volume 10, Issue 3.
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