Female labor market participation rates have increased substantially in many countries over the last decades, especially those of mothers with young children. This trend has triggered an intense debate about its implications for children’s well-being and long-term educational outcomes. The...

This article explores Bruno Amable's Diversity of Capitalism approach to analyze educational systems in the European Union (EU28). The main goal is to identify the main clusters of educational systems with regard to their institutional characteristics. Second goal of the analysis is to evaluate...

When considering issues of measuring welfare beyond gross domestic product (GDP), a key ongoing, but unfinished, agenda concerns how to measure the outputs of goods and services which are "free at the point of delivery". Public services such as schools and health services are major examples of...

In the current economic context, the issue of IT&C competencies indissoluble to the accounting profession gets special meanings: accounting skills and those associated with the quality of professional accountant must be completed with the specific use of advanced technologies to address this...

The aim of this study is to examine the factors affecting Malaysian male and female students' intention to enroll in accounting programs. The study is based on the Theory of Reasoned Action as a theoretical framework. Based on Theory of Reasoned Action model, the factors that may affect...

The worldwide demand of young academics has constantly expanded throughout the last decades. The minimum requirements for entering the global academic labor market have increased and PhD students need to rise up to the expectations of a progressively demanding profession. This paper aims to fill...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which accounting internships contribute to forming and developing students' competencies, practical abilities, professional and ethical values and to a more informed understanding of the accounting profession. We focus on the internship...

The article focuses on the phenomenon of financial literacy of students. Financial literacy is treated as a combination of financial knowledge and the decision-making process where one has to make a choice based on experience and theory. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to the essence...

This paper evaluates the diffusion of peer effects on academic achievement of 4th grade students in the Brazilian public school system. Using data from Prova Brasil 2013, the identification strategy builds on the use of an IV approach, in which the instruments for peers' performance are the...

Der Ausbau hin zu einem flächendeckenden Ganztagsangebot für Grundschüler*innen seit 2003 zielte darauf ab, Chancengleichheit zu fördern. Empirische Analysen auf Basis administrativer Schuldaten aus sechs westdeutschen Bundesländern und dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) zeigen nun...