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 …

In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these … respective categories in Pakistan. The hypothesis was that if we find that labour market rewards male more than female then this …

Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in … education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and … latest nationally representative data - the Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (2002) - is used. Earnings function …

special attention given to the roles of gender and race. While the analysis reveals no overt bias in salary growth decisions … occupation is negatively related to salary growth for all but white males. Additional analysis suggests that rules governing …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …