Determinants of Earnings: A District Wise Mapping of Pakistan

Abstract

There exist huge earning differentials across the districts of Pakistan. The present study is an attempt to analyze the factors that can be attributed to differences in earnings across the districts of Pakistan. The results show that proportion of educated earners, efficient age group earners and dependency ratio had a positive impact on the average earnings, while the proportion of female earners had negative effect on average earnings. Moreover, the impact of socio-development factors; like infrastructure, health units and provincial capital had a favorable effect on the average earnings of individuals. On the other hand, terrorist attacks results in lowering the average earnings.