Disparity in the structure of wages in Pakistan

Syed Hasan, Muhammad Subhani () and Amber Osman
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Muhammad Nayaz

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Abstract: Perpetual Disparities in all norms of lives are one of those essences of Pakistan which have been like a ghost that always exploits to its victims. This paper investigates and identifies the Disparities in the wage Structure of Pakistan. Data for the wages from 9 different sectors which includes Mining and Quarrying, Manufacturing, Electric Gas and Water, Construction, Whole and Retail Trade, Transportation, Financial Real Estate have been taken from Labor force survey for 2000- 2010, which is available at State Bank and Economic Survey of Pakistan. The main objective/ proposition of this study is to compare the wages of the outlined sectors with the wage structure of agriculture sector. The Split technique for means has been deployed to interrogate the data and the propositions of this research. It is revealed in this paper that wages of all the selected sectors are at higher side as compared to the agriculture sector of Pakistan, and despite of the claim that Pakistan is an agririan country, the agriculture sector has been ignored in terms of wages offered to the employees work for it.

Keywords: Disparity; Wages; Real Wages; Sectorial Wages; Income Distribution; Inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Science Series Data Report 2.4(2012): pp. 38-41

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