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Effects of Access to Education and Information-communication Technology on Income Inequality In Kazakhstan

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The article examines the influence of access to education and information-communication technologies on the inequality in the population distribution by income. The aim of the study is to prove that the low accessibility to professional education and information-communication technologies is a factor of increasing income inequality in Kazakhstan. Based on the databases of Kazakhstan household studies, the presence of direct relationship between the denoted parameters is ascertained, and recommendations on improving government policies to reduce income inequality and enhance the population's quality of life are given.

Source: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.459

Authors: Tatyana Kudasheva, Svetlana Kunitsa, Bulat Mukhamediyev

Institution: Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Language: English

Topic: Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, No poverty

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W627216441

FWCI: 4.165

Cites: 7

Cited by: 27

Related to: 10