Dr Joanna Sikora Mgr University of Wrocław PhD ANU
	Lecturer
		Room:	HA 2169
		Telephone:	612 54574
		Email:	Joanna.Sikora@anu.edu.au

Research Interests:

Analyses of social attitudes
Equity in education
Government ownership
Inequality in comparative perspective
Survey research methodology
Transition from education to work

Selected Publications:

Joanna Sikora and L. J. Saha.2007."Corrosive inequality? Structural determinants of educational and occupational expectations in comparative perspective". International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, Vol. 8 (3), pp. 57-78. based on the OECD's PISA 2000 and 2003 data/ click here for pdf file

Evans M.D.R, Jonathan Kelley and Joanna Sikora.2005."Scholarly Culture and Educational Success in 27 Nations". Unpublished manuscript click here for pdf file

Sikora, Joanna 2005. "Public Attitudes to Economic Policy in East and West: Efficiency, Subsidies and Public Ownership." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Vol. 23, Pp. 229-276

Sikora, Joanna. 2004a. "Global Inequality: Moral Obligation of the Wealthy? Attitudes in 29 countries in 1999-2000." Pp. 279-289 in "Australian Economy and Society 2002: Religion, Morality and Public Policy", edited by M. D. R. Evans and J. Kelley. Annandale, N.S.W.: Federation Press.

Evans, M. D. R. and Joanna Sikora. 2004b. "Self-employment in Australia 1980-1999." Pp. 203-244 in "The Re-emergence of Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality", edited by R. Arum and W. Müller. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sikora, Joanna; Evans, M. D. R.; Kelley, Jonathan; Treiman, Donald J. 2004c. Bookish childhoods: how many books have we grown up with? Australian Social Monitor, v.7, no.1, pp: 27-29

Sikora, Joanna .2003. "Tastes for privatisation and tastes for subsidisation: Have Australians been getting cold feet?" Australian Social Monitor 6:34-40.

Kelley, Jonathan and Joanna Sikora. 2002. "Australian Public Opinion on Privatisation, 1986-2002." Pp. 54-73 in "Growth: Privatisation: The Australian Experience", edited by M. Mead. Canberra: CEDA (Committee for the Economic Development of Australia):.

Sikora, Joanna .2001."Is Corruption Necessary for Upward Mobility? Perceptions from 26 Nations in 1999/2000." Australian Social Monitor 4:83-88.

Sikora, Joanna and Jonathan Kelley. 1999. "Attitudes to Private and Public Ownership in East and West: Bulgaria, Poland, Australia and Finland, 1994/97." The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 26:13-46.