Authors

• Mohammad Ali Kafaei, ¹
• Dorostkar Ezzatolah ²

¹ Assistant Professer in Economics, Shahid Beheshti University

² M.A. in Economics

Abstract

Income distribution is usually affected by social and economic structures and especially by factors such as inflation, unemployment rates and the government size. In addition, the level of literacy and education are also seen as important factors affecting the income gap among different groups.  The purpose of this article is to study the relationship between educational variables, measured by the literacy level and its dispersion, and income distribution in the Iranian economy for the period 1347-1380 (1968-2001). Our findings indicate that as the average level of education increases, income inequality will decrease; but with increasing the standard deviation of education among citizens, income equality worsens. 

Keywords

• Human Capital
• Income Distribution
• Education
• average level of education
• distribution of education