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Sagadiyev LLP</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47703/ejebs.v69i2.505</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">ejebs-226</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The Role of Education in Reducing Income Inequality: A Regional Analysis of Kazakhstan</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9504-9629</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Zeinolla</surname><given-names>Saule</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">zeinollasaule@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9754-3383</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Tleppayev</surname><given-names>Arsen</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD</p><p> </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">arsentlp@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4615-741X</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kerimbayev</surname><given-names>Rashid</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Cand. Sc. (Math.), Senior Lecturer</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ker@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1865-4681</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Spankulova</surname><given-names>Lazat</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Doc. Sc. (Econ.), Professor</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">spankulova@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="en">Faculty of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Kazakh-German University,  Almaty<country>Kazakhstan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="en">al-Farabi Kazakh National University,  Almaty<country>Kazakhstan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-3"><aff xml:lang="en">Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty<country>Kazakhstan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>22</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>69</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title>Eurasian Journal of Economic and Business Studies</issue-title><elocation-id>34–50</elocation-id><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Zeinolla S., Tleppayev A., Kerimbayev R., Spankulova L., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Zeinolla S., Tleppayev A., Kerimbayev R., Spankulova L.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Zeinolla S., Tleppayev A., Kerimbayev R., Spankulova L.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://ejebs.uib.kz/jour/article/view/226">https://ejebs.uib.kz/jour/article/view/226</self-uri><abstract/><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Economy</kwd><kwd>Regional Economy</kwd><kwd>Economic Development</kwd><kwd>Economic Inequality</kwd><kwd>Human Capital</kwd><kwd>Knowledge Economy</kwd><kwd>Higher Education</kwd><kwd>Unemployment</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement>This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant “A systematic approach to monitoring, analysis and assessment of the quality of higher education in Kazakhstan” BR21882434).</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Abdullah, A. 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