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In: Marine corps gazette: the Marine Corps Association newsletter, Band 85, Heft 9, S. 81-84
ISSN: 0025-3170
In: The Journal of social psychology, Band 140, Heft 6, S. 789-791
ISSN: 1940-1183
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 87, Heft 345, S. 45-50
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: Asian studies review, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 103-112
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Public budgeting & finance, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 4-6
ISSN: 1540-5850
In: Government publications review: an international journal, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 321-325
In: Journal of political economy, Band 85, Heft 1, S. 215-215
ISSN: 1537-534X
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 74, Heft 297, S. 427-441
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: Curriculum Theory Network, Heft 1, S. 11
In: Indian journal of public administration, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 565-573
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: Economica, Band 84, Heft 334, S. 180-209
ISSN: 1468-0335
We document the evolution of gender inequality in labour market outcomes—earnings, labour supply and wage rates—over the path of economic development, and present evidence on the potential reasons for this evolution. To this end, we have created a micro database that compiles 248 surveys from 53 countries between 1967 and 2014, covering a wide range of per capita income levels. There is large convergence in the earnings of men and women over the path of development, driven by female labour force participation and wage rates. We argue that the single most important factor behind this convergence is demographic transition: the effects of children on gender gaps ('child penalties') are large at both low and high levels of development, but fertility declines drastically over the growth process and thus reduces the aggregate implications of children. We also document gender convergence in educational attainment and consider its effects on earnings inequality, arguing that these are significant but less dramatic than the effects of fertility. Finally, we document striking changes in the values or norms surrounding the role of women with children, implying that such changes could serve as a reinforcing mechanism for gender convergence.
In: International studies in higher education
Introduction and overview of the book / BjØrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability: understandings and challenges / BjØrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey -- Accountability in Australia: more power to government and market / Jeanette Baird -- Accountability in Africa: a disciplinary power in African higher education systems / Gerald Wangenge-Ouma and Patricio V. Langa -- Accountability in China: primitive attempts / Shuiyun Liu -- Accountability in Eastern Europe: becoming like everywhere else? / Paul Temple -- Accountability in Western Europe: shifting quality assurance paradigms / Andre Sursock -- Accountability in Latin America: focusing on quality assurance and funding mechanisms / Maria-Jose Lemaitre -- Accountability in the United States: sorting through an American muddle / Robert Zemsky -- Accountability and cross-border higher education: dynamics, trends and challenges / Robin Middlehurst -- Transnational accountability initiatives: the case of the EUA-audits / Alberto Amaral and Maria Jose Rosa -- Managerial and political strategies for handling accountability / William F. Massy -- Conclusions and reflections / BjØrn Stensaker and Lee Harvey.
In: Routledge Advances in Social Work Series