Determinants of Earnings: A District Wise Mapping of Pakistan

Khola Khan and Muhammad Idrees

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.