Steve McDonald

Which Contributions Predict Whether Developers Are Accepted Into GitHub Teams

2018 IEEE/ACM 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES (MSR), 403–413.

The structure of internal job mobility and organizational wage inequality

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 47, 21–31.

Race, skin tone, and educational achievement

Sociological Perspectives, 59(1), 91–111.

Cross-national patterns of social capital accumulation: Network resources and aging in China, Taiwan, and the United States

American Behavioral Scientist, 59(8), 914–930.

Do networked workers have more control? The implications of teamwork, telework, ICTS, and social capital for job decision latitude

American Behavioral Scientist, 59(4), 492–507.

Helping hands: Race, neighborhood context, and reluctance in providing job-finding assistance

Sociological Quarterly, 56(3), 539–557.

Network effects across the earnings distribution: Payoffs to visible and invisible job finding assistance

Social Science Research, 49, 299–313.

The recruitment paradox: Network recruitment, structural position, and East German market transition

Social Forces, 93(3), 905–932.

The long arm of mentoring: A counterfactual analysis of natural youth mentoring and employment outcomes in early careers

American Journal of Community Psychology, 54(3-4), 262–273.

Production teams and producing racial diversity in workplace relationships

Sociological Forum, 28(2), 326–349.

Social capital and institutional constraints: A comprehensive analysis of China, Taiwan, and the U.S.

[Review of ]. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 54(4), 386–388.

Dual embeddedness: Informal job matching and labor market institutions in the United States and Germany

Social Forces, 91(1), 75–97.

What you know or who you know? Occupation-specific work experience and job matching through social networks

Social Science Research, 40(6), 1664–1675.

What's in the "old boys" network? Accessing social capital in gendered and racialized networks

Social Networks, 33(4), 317–330.

Making gender fit and "correcting" gender misfits sex segregated employment and the nonsearch process

Gender & Society, 24(2), 213–236.

Not so fast, my friend: Social capital and the race disparity in promotions among college football coaches

Sociological Spectrum, 30(2), 138–158.

Right place, right time: Serendipity and informal job matching

Socio-Economic Review, 8(2), 307–331.

Social capital across the life course: Age and gendered patterns of network resources

Sociological Forum, 25(2), 335–359.

Making our way through the world: Human reflexivity and social mobility

[Review of ]. Work and Occupations, 36(1), 77–78.

Networks of opportunity: Gender, race, and job leads

Social Problems (Society for the Study of Social Problems), 56(3), 385–402.

Informal mentoring and young adult employment

Social Science Research, 36(4), 1328–1347.

Takin’ It from the Streets: How the Sixties Mass Movement Revitalized Unionization

American Journal of Sociology, 112(1), 46–96.

When does social capital matter? Non-searching for jobs across the life course

Social Forces, 85(1), 521–549.