Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83948 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2007/24
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
This paper estimates and interprets returns to education for three sub-sectors of labour market by gender in Pakistan, using the most recent data set of Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey 2004-05. The results show two distinctive features of Pakistani education, the high apparent returns to female education outside agriculture, and the remarkable increase of returns with successive levels of education, are to be explained primarily by two departures from the basic Mincer model; generally poor quality primary schooling and family unwillingness to invest in female education because of lack of earning opportunities. There is some signaling in Pakistani education investment but mainly the education is productivity-enhancing investment in human capital, according to a comparison of self-employed and paid employed earnings equations. Returns to public spending of education are extremely high, suggesting very considerable state underinvestment. The policy challenge is in the low wages and high education in the female paid employment sector, and the low participation rate.
Subjects: 
Rates of return
gender
occupation
Pakistan
JEL: 
J16
J18
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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