Inequalities in Pakistan

"The significantly to inequality are self-employment other than agriculture, profits, interests, gifts/assistance and property in urban areas and self-employment in agriculture as well as other than agriculture and property income in the rural areas. The analysis further shows that inequality in non-food consumption expenditures is more severe as compared to the inequality in food consumption expenditures.
There is a presence of high degree of earnings inequality in Pakistan, especially in urban Pakistan. The analysis further shows that earnings inequality is relatively higher among youngest and eldest groups of earners, female earners, earners with low level of education, earners working as employers and members of producer's cooperatives, and the earners employed in services industries other than social & personal services. On the other hand, the degree of inequality is lower among the middle-age groups, the highly educated workers, paid workers and the workers employed in the primary products industries namely agriculture, forestry, hunting & fishing.

The decomposition analysis indicates that age of the earners in an important factor contributing to earning inequality in urban Pakistan but not in rural Pakistan. In urban Pakistan the earnings inequality between employment statuses, especially between employers and paid employees, is also quite high. Contrary to the popular belief, the inequality between earners with different levels of education is not much high, though the inequality within the groups of earners having higher levels of education is less than the inequality within the groups of earners with low levels of education."

http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/2065/1/1984.htm