Joanna Sikora
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Sikora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Sikora |
| SIGNATURE | SIKORA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9676-8417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Care work career plans in 30 OECD countries, 2000–2022
Leveraging two decades of Programme for International Student Assessment data (2000–2022) for over 1 million students across 30 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, this study investigates adolescents’ evolving expectations to enter care-related careers. Multilevel modeling reveals an enduring gender divide: by 2022, young women remain three times more likely than young men to anticipate entering the care economy. How…
Rethinking the “Asian advantage”
Debates about the so-called “Asian educational advantage” require clarity on how the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of schools affects student achievement. Using administrative data from the 2017 Higher School Certificate (HSC) cohort in New South Wales, two-level regression models differentiate between the effects of students’ personal backgrounds and those of the schools they attend. Indicators of ethnicity include the languages spoken at home…
Planning to Care
Care work, both paid and unpaid, has drawn attention from feminist scholars and activists regarding its devaluation and the growing shortage of workers, especially after the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The authors examine plans to enter care work among more than 1 million high school students in the United States and 29 comparison Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, using data from five waves of the Program fo…
Do linguistically diverse migrants dominate advanced mathematics? Comparing Greater Sydney with the rest of New South Wales
This study uses ethnic capital theory to explore access to secondary mathematics education among linguistically diverse (LD) migrants in metropolitan and regional New South Wales, Australia. Administrative data from over 50,000 students who completed their Higher School Certificate in 2017 were analysed using multilevel logit regressions and marginal effects. The results indicate that, in Greater Sydney, all linguistically diverse first-generatio…
Comparing apples with apples? How ethnolinguistic and immigration status differentiates university admissions in Toronto and Sydney
Historically, a scarcity of comprehensive longitudinal microdata has affected comparative research on the interplay between self-identified race, immigrant status, and educational attainment. Thus, this study utilizes ethnic capital theory and harmonized data from Toronto, Canada, and Sydney, Australia, to scrutinize the success of ethnolinguistically diverse immigrants in accessing university education. While students from certain East Asian cou…
Does teenage interest in a teaching career lead to becoming a teacher? Evidence from Australia
Gifts as gains? The impact of volunteering on young people’s educational and occupational attainment in Australia
Volunteering is perceived as benefiting youth by facilitating university entry and access to better employment. However, little empirical evidence exists to show whether such perceptions are justified. Therefore, this article presents data on volunteering and attainment from a representative sample of Australians who were born around 1990 and participated in the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth between 2006 and 2016. Supplementing results …
Scholarly culture
How gendered is ambition? Educational and occupational plans of Indigenous youth in Australia
Scholarly Culture and Occupational Success in 31 Societies
Prior research shows that coming from a book-oriented family is a great advantage for children's education, especially for the 'ordinary success' of children from disadvantaged families. Focusing on the next career stage, our multi-level analysis (58,944 respondents in 31 societies) shows that it furthers children's later occupational career even more than parents' education or occupation, especially in developing nations where there is a small a…
Heritability, family, school and academic achievement in adolescence
Scholarly Culture and Academic Performance in 42 Nations
Exposure to books and high culture provides important academic advantages. But the reasons for this are hotly disputed. Elite closure theory posits that culture merely signals children's elite status to gatekeepers who then grant them unjust advantages. But other theories suggest that scholarly culture provides cognitive skills that improve academic performance, which schools justly reward. We attempt to adjudicate between these theories using da…
Gender Gap in School Science
Family scholarly culture and educational success
Vocational education, self‐employment and burnout among Australian workers
We examine the relationship between vocational education and occupational burnout among workers in different forms of employment. Although the self‐employed enjoy higher levels of job autonomy and work‐related satisfaction, we do not know whether they experience lower rates of occupational burnout, and whether vocational education plays a role in this relationship. This latter consideration is important, given that vocational qualifications often…
Religion and attitudes concerning euthanasia
What was the influence of religious identity, beliefs and practices on attitudes to euthanasia in Australia during the 1990s? To address this question I analyse data from national representative surveys and find that denomination, church attendance and beliefs in personal God all made a difference to attitudes to voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia in unique ways. Moreover, the acceptance of a scientific outlook, comprising elements of Darwini…
Attitudes concerning euthanasia
With rapid developments in life-prolonging technologies and increases in average life expectancy, euthanasia has become an increasingly topical issue. This paper contributes to the euthanasia debate an analysis of Australian attitudes to assisted suicide, active non-voluntary as well as passive non-voluntary euthanasia. Between 1993 and 2002, Australians supported access to voluntary euthanasia of the terminally ill, but had reservations when dea…
Public Attitudes to Economic Policy in East and West
Attitudes To Private and Public Ownership in East and West
Family scholarly culture and educational success
Scholarly culture
How gendered is ambition? Educational and occupational plans of Indigenous youth in Australia
Scholarly Culture and Occupational Success in 31 Societies
Prior research shows that coming from a book-oriented family is a great advantage for children's education, especially for the 'ordinary success' of children from disadvantaged families. Focusing on the next career stage, our multi-level analysis (58,944 respondents in 31 societies) shows that it furthers children's later occupational career even more than parents' education or occupation, especially in developing nations where there is a small a…
Public Attitudes to Economic Policy in East and West
Heritability, family, school and academic achievement in adolescence
Attitudes concerning euthanasia
With rapid developments in life-prolonging technologies and increases in average life expectancy, euthanasia has become an increasingly topical issue. This paper contributes to the euthanasia debate an analysis of Australian attitudes to assisted suicide, active non-voluntary as well as passive non-voluntary euthanasia. Between 1993 and 2002, Australians supported access to voluntary euthanasia of the terminally ill, but had reservations when dea…
Gender Gap in School Science
Does teenage interest in a teaching career lead to becoming a teacher? Evidence from Australia
Religion and attitudes concerning euthanasia
What was the influence of religious identity, beliefs and practices on attitudes to euthanasia in Australia during the 1990s? To address this question I analyse data from national representative surveys and find that denomination, church attendance and beliefs in personal God all made a difference to attitudes to voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia in unique ways. Moreover, the acceptance of a scientific outlook, comprising elements of Darwini…
Attitudes To Private and Public Ownership in East and West
Attitudes To Private and Public Ownership in East and West
Public Attitudes to Economic Policy in East and West
Attitudes concerning euthanasia
With rapid developments in life-prolonging technologies and increases in average life expectancy, euthanasia has become an increasingly topical issue. This paper contributes to the euthanasia debate an analysis of Australian attitudes to assisted suicide, active non-voluntary as well as passive non-voluntary euthanasia. Between 1993 and 2002, Australians supported access to voluntary euthanasia of the terminally ill, but had reservations when dea…
Vocational education, self‐employment and burnout among Australian workers
We examine the relationship between vocational education and occupational burnout among workers in different forms of employment. Although the self‐employed enjoy higher levels of job autonomy and work‐related satisfaction, we do not know whether they experience lower rates of occupational burnout, and whether vocational education plays a role in this relationship. This latter consideration is important, given that vocational qualifications often…
Religion and attitudes concerning euthanasia
What was the influence of religious identity, beliefs and practices on attitudes to euthanasia in Australia during the 1990s? To address this question I analyse data from national representative surveys and find that denomination, church attendance and beliefs in personal God all made a difference to attitudes to voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia in unique ways. Moreover, the acceptance of a scientific outlook, comprising elements of Darwini…
Family scholarly culture and educational success
Scholarly Culture and Academic Performance in 42 Nations
Exposure to books and high culture provides important academic advantages. But the reasons for this are hotly disputed. Elite closure theory posits that culture merely signals children's elite status to gatekeepers who then grant them unjust advantages. But other theories suggest that scholarly culture provides cognitive skills that improve academic performance, which schools justly reward. We attempt to adjudicate between these theories using da…
Gender Gap in School Science
How gendered is ambition? Educational and occupational plans of Indigenous youth in Australia
Scholarly Culture and Occupational Success in 31 Societies
Prior research shows that coming from a book-oriented family is a great advantage for children's education, especially for the 'ordinary success' of children from disadvantaged families. Focusing on the next career stage, our multi-level analysis (58,944 respondents in 31 societies) shows that it furthers children's later occupational career even more than parents' education or occupation, especially in developing nations where there is a small a…
Heritability, family, school and academic achievement in adolescence
Scholarly culture
Gifts as gains? The impact of volunteering on young people’s educational and occupational attainment in Australia
Volunteering is perceived as benefiting youth by facilitating university entry and access to better employment. However, little empirical evidence exists to show whether such perceptions are justified. Therefore, this article presents data on volunteering and attainment from a representative sample of Australians who were born around 1990 and participated in the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth between 2006 and 2016. Supplementing results …
Does teenage interest in a teaching career lead to becoming a teacher? Evidence from Australia
Do linguistically diverse migrants dominate advanced mathematics? Comparing Greater Sydney with the rest of New South Wales
This study uses ethnic capital theory to explore access to secondary mathematics education among linguistically diverse (LD) migrants in metropolitan and regional New South Wales, Australia. Administrative data from over 50,000 students who completed their Higher School Certificate in 2017 were analysed using multilevel logit regressions and marginal effects. The results indicate that, in Greater Sydney, all linguistically diverse first-generatio…
Comparing apples with apples? How ethnolinguistic and immigration status differentiates university admissions in Toronto and Sydney
Historically, a scarcity of comprehensive longitudinal microdata has affected comparative research on the interplay between self-identified race, immigrant status, and educational attainment. Thus, this study utilizes ethnic capital theory and harmonized data from Toronto, Canada, and Sydney, Australia, to scrutinize the success of ethnolinguistically diverse immigrants in accessing university education. While students from certain East Asian cou…
Planning to Care
Care work, both paid and unpaid, has drawn attention from feminist scholars and activists regarding its devaluation and the growing shortage of workers, especially after the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The authors examine plans to enter care work among more than 1 million high school students in the United States and 29 comparison Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, using data from five waves of the Program fo…
Care work career plans in 30 OECD countries, 2000–2022
Leveraging two decades of Programme for International Student Assessment data (2000–2022) for over 1 million students across 30 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, this study investigates adolescents’ evolving expectations to enter care-related careers. Multilevel modeling reveals an enduring gender divide: by 2022, young women remain three times more likely than young men to anticipate entering the care economy. How…
Rethinking the “Asian advantage”
Debates about the so-called “Asian educational advantage” require clarity on how the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of schools affects student achievement. Using administrative data from the 2017 Higher School Certificate (HSC) cohort in New South Wales, two-level regression models differentiate between the effects of students’ personal backgrounds and those of the schools they attend. Indicators of ethnicity include the languages spoken at home…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Law (7 works) · School Choice and Performance (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works)