Benjamin A. Rissing. Organizations and Employment, Human Resource Management, Labor Market Inequality Education

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1 Research and Teaching Interests Benjamin A. Rissing Brown University Department of Sociology Providence, RI Office: (401) Mobile: (703) Organizations and Employment, Human Resource Management, Labor Market Inequality Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Institute for Work and Employment Research, Sloan School of Management Ph.D. in Management Duke University, Master of Engineering Management Program Masters in Engineering Management University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering / Biomedical Minor Employment 2014 Present Pearson Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Organizational Studies, Brown University, Department of Sociology Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies Wertheim Fellow, Harvard Law School, Labor and Worklife Program Research Scholar, Duke University, Master of Engineering Management Program Honors 2014 National Finalist, White House Fellows Program 2012 Best Paper Proceedings Recipient, Academy of Management 2011 Award Recipient, U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Research Paper Program Publications 1. Reviewed Articles and Chapters 2014 House of Green Cards: Statistical or Preference-based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals. (Ben A. Rissing, Emilio J. Castilla). American Sociological Review. 79(6):

2 Ben A. Rissing Highly-skilled Information and Technology Migrant Workers. (Ben A. Rissing). Pp in the Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by I. Ness and P. Bellwood. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell Social Networks and Employment: Mechanisms (Part 1) and Outcomes (Part 2) (Emilio J. Castilla, George Lan, Ben A. Rissing). Sociology Compass 7(12): , Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Improvement of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains. (Richard M. Locke, Ben A. Rissing, Timea Pal). British Journal of Industrial Relations 51(3): How Many Highly Skilled Foreign-Born are Waiting in Line for U.S. Legal Permanent Residence? (Guillermina Jasso, Vivek Wadhwa, Gary Gereffi, Ben A. Rissing, Richard Freeman). International Migration Review 44(2): Getting the Numbers Right: International Engineering Education in the United States, China and India (Gary Gereffi, Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Ryan Ong). Journal of Engineering Education 97(1): Where the Engineers Are (Vivek Wadhwa, Gary Gereffi, Ben A. Rissing, Ryan Ong). Issues in Science and Technology 23(3): Insulin and Glucose Play a Role in Foam Cell Formation and Function (Pavel Shashkin, Nitin Jain, Yury Miller, Ben A. Rissing, Yuqing Huo, Susanna Keller, George Vandenhoff, Jerry Nadler and Thomas McIntyre). Cardiovascular Diabetology 5: Journal Articles in Progress 2014 Testing Attestations: U.S. Unemployment and Immigrant Work Authorization (Ben A. Rissing, Emilio J. Castilla). Industrial and Labor Relations Review Revise and Resubmit To H-1B or Not to H-1B? Inequality and Social Closure in U.S. Immigrant Work Authorizations (Ben A. Rissing). Working paper Best in Class? The Returns on Endorsement in Business School Admissions (Emilio J. Castilla, Ben A. Rissing). Working paper Trust but Verify: The Paradox of Anomic Regulation (Ben A. Rissing). Working paper. 3. Other Publications 2012 How Government Agents Shape the Employment of Skilled Immigrants. (Ben A. Rissing). U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration 2012 Occasional Paper Series (ETA-2012) Off to a Green Start? How State Agents Shape the Employment Outcomes of Foreign Nationals by Citizenship. (Ben A. Rissing, Emilio J. Castilla). Academy of Management Proceedings.

3 Ben A. Rissing The Globalization of Innovation: Pharmaceuticals (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Gary Gereffi, John Trumpbour, Pete Engardio). Kauffman Foundation Research and Policy Paper Series Education and Tech Entrepreneurship (Vivek Wadhwa, Richard Freeman, Ben A. Rissing). Kauffman Foundation Research and Policy Paper Series Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part III (Vivek Wadhwa, Guillermina Jasso, Ben A. Rissing, Gary Gereffi, Richard Freeman). Kauffman Foundation Immigrant Entrepreneurs Paper Series Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part II (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). Kauffman Foundation Immigrant Entrepreneurs Paper Series. Reprinted: Education, Entrepreneurship and Immigration: America s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). 2008, The India Economy Review 5: America s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part I (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). Kauffman Foundation Immigrant Entrepreneurs Paper Series. Reprinted (Chinese): America s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Vivek Wadhwa, Ben A. Rissing, Annalee Saxenian, Gary Gereffi). 2007, China Entrepreneur: News Articles 2015 Latin American Immigrants are Less Likely to be Authorized to Work in the U.S. than Similar Immigrants from Other Countries (Ben A. Rissing, Emilio J. Castilla). London School of Economics USA Public Policy (USAPP) Blog Big Pharma s R&D Booster Shot (Pete Engardio, Ben A. Rissing). Business Week. Presentations, Conferences, and Invited Talks To H-1B or Not to H-1B? Inequality and Social Closure in U.S. Immigrant Work Authorizations November Presented at the Institute for Work and Employment Seminar at the MIT August Presented at the Academy of Management Divisional Paper session Focusing on Legal Issues in HR in Philadelphia, PA. July Presented at the 26th Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Conference panel on International Labour Migration in Chicago, IL. May Presented at the Watson Work in Progress Seminar Series at Brown University in Providence, RI.

4 Ben A. Rissing 4 April Presented at the Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop at the Harvard Sociology Department in Cambridge, MA. October Poster presented at the Economic Sociology Workshop at the NYU Stern School of Management in New York, NY. September Plenary session presentation at the People and Organizations Conference at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, PA. May Presented at the What s the Evidence? Division of Research and Evaluation Paper Briefing at the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration in Washington, DC. November Presented at the Institute for Work and Employment Workshop at the MIT Testing Attestations: U.S. Unemployment and Immigrant Work Authorization October Poster presented at the Economy and Yale Conference at the Yale School of Management in New Haven, CT. Best in Class? The Returns on Endorsement in Business School Admissions October Presented at the 7 th Annual People and Organizations Conference at the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia, PA. July Presented at the Economic Sociology Working Group Seminar at the MIT July Presented at the 26th Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Conference panel on Varieties of Education and Inequality in Chicago, IL. House of Green Cards: Statistical or Preference-based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals October Presented at the Workshop on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, MA. October Presented at the Science-Based Business Initiatives Seminar Series at the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA. June Presented at the Sociology Department Colloquia at Stanford University in Stanford, CA. October Presented at the Institute for Work and Employment Seminar at the MIT August Presented at the Academy of Management Cross Divisional Paper session on Understanding and Avoiding Employment Discrimination Based on Citizenship, Religion, Criminal History, and Age in Boston, MA. July Presented at the Impact of Organizational Practices on Individual Employment Outcomes colloquium at the 28 th annual European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference in Helsinki, Finland.

5 Ben A. Rissing 5 June Presented at the 24th Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Conference panel on The Social Construction of Merit in Boston, Massachusetts. December Presented at the Princeton University Center for the Study of Social Organization Workshop in Princeton, NJ. December Presented at the Wagner Colloquium at the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in New York, NY. November Presented at the Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop at the Harvard Sociology Department in Cambridge, MA. August Presented at the 106th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting panel on Culture and Exclusion in the Organization of Work in Las Vegas, NV. March Presented at the Economic Sociology Working Group Seminar at the MIT December Presented at the Institute for Work and Employment Seminar at the MIT Trust or Verify? The Paradox of Anomic Regulation June Presented at the Economic Sociology Working Group Seminar at the MIT June Presented at the Law and Society Association 2013 International Meeting panel on The Role of Punishment, Legitimacy, and Motivation in Compliance: Empirical and Experimental Research in Boston, MA. Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Improvement of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains. December Presented at the 2011 British Journal of Industrial Relations 50 th Anniversary Conference panel on Labour Standards and CSR at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London, England Skilled Foreign Nationals and the Transition to Employment-Based Permanent Residency. March Presented at the 2010 Annual Eastern Sociological Society Conference panel on Immigrants and Socioeconomic Incorporation in Boston, MA. America s New Immigrant Entrepreneurs. July Entrepreneurship and the Environment Panel Presentation at Venice International University in Venice, Italy. Globalization and Engineering. March Presented (with Vivek Wadhwa) at the Science- Based Business Initiatives Seminar Series at the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA. Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate. February Presented at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University in Durham, NC. Teaching Experience Spring 2015 Instructor for Stratification and Labor Markets, Brown University, undergraduate students

6 Ben A. Rissing 6 Fall 2014 Summer 2013 Spring 2013, Spring 2012 Fall 2012, Fall 2011 Summer 2011 Spring 2011 Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Instructor for Employment and Labor in the New Economy, Brown University, undergraduate students Instructor for Sloan Fellows Math Tutorial, MIT, Sloan Fellows Teaching Assistant (TA) for Strategic Human Resource Management, MIT, MBA students TA for Doctoral Seminar in Research Methods II, MIT, doctoral students. Taught two sessions on data analysis in STATA TA for Global Markets, MIT, MBA students TA for Managerial Psychology, MIT, undergraduate students TA for Global Engineering Education Research Practicum, Duke University, graduate students TA for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Research Practicum, Duke University, graduate students Professional Memberships American Sociological Association Academy of Management Labor and Employment Relations Association Law and Society Association Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Employment Policy and Research Network Eastern Sociological Society Select Media and Policy Coverage of Academic Work Srinivas, Siri US Green Cards Go To the Few: One-Third of Latin Americans Rejected, 90% of Asians Accepted. The Guardian, January 13. Interviewed re: my House of Green Cards research pertaining to inequality in immigrant labor certification outcomes. Obama, Barack Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Speech at the Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, Texas, May 10. President Obama referenced my research on immigrant contributions to U.S. jobs and startups. William (Bill) H., Gates Congressional Testimony. Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of Representatives. Washington D.C., March 12, p. 14. William (Bill) H. Gates highlighted my research on U.S. immigrant entrepreneurship. Holden, Constance Engineered Numbers? Science Magazine. January 6, vol. 311, p. 21. Research featured in Science Magazine s Random Samples section. Davidson, Adam Figures on Chinese Engineers Fail to Add Up. National Public Radio. June 14. Interviewed re: engineer production in the United States, China, and India. Samuelson, Robert J A Phony Science Gap? The Washington Post, February 22, p. A15.

7 Ben A. Rissing 7 References Emilio J. Castilla, Associate Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School Phone: (617) ; ecastilla@mit.edu Thomas A. Kochan, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School Phone: (617) ; tkochan@mit.edu Richard M. Locke, Director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Phone: (401) ; richard_locke@brown.edu Susan S. Silbey, Head of Anthropology and Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, MIT Phone: (617) ; ssilbey@mit.edu