Rune Vammen Lesner

Senior Researcher, PhD, cand.scient.oecon

  • Children, Adolescents and Families
  • Labour Market
  • The Social Sector

Key Expertise:

  • Inequality and social heritage,
  • Gender and identity,
  • Gender equality,
  • Immigrants,
  • Integration,
  • Benefit income,
  • Vulnerable persons,
  • Poverty,
  • Child poverty
Rune Vammen Lesner is researcher at VIVE. Rune has a Ph.D. in Economics from Aarhus University. His primary research interest in causal estimation methods and the determinants of inequalities in the labor economics - such as gender, ethnicity, and parental background and the process of youth skill development

Selected publications

Scientific article
1. JUN 2022
  • Labor market
  • Social issues
  • Children, youth and family
  • Daycare, school and education

Lesner, R. V., Damm, A. P., Bertelsen, P., & Pedersen, M. U. (2022). The Effect of School-Year Employment on Cognitive Skills, Risky Behavior, and Educational Achievement. Economics of Education Review, 88(June), Article 102241. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2022.102241

Scientific article
NOV 2020
  • Labor market
  • Social issues

Vammen Lesner, R. (2020). Labor market sorting on personality traits and the gender wage gap. Applied Economics Letters, 27(11), 940-944. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1646867

Scientific article
JAN 2019

Gallen, Y., Lesner, R. V., & Vejlin, R. (2019). The Labor Market Gender Gap in Denmark: Sorting Out the Past 30 Years. Labour Economics, 56, 58-67.

Working paper
2019

Vammen Lesner, R., Vejlin, R. M., & Bagger, J. (2019). The Gender Wage Gap: The Roles of Job Search, Productivity, Parental Leave and Experience Accumulation.

Working paper
2018

Vammen Lesner, R., Damm, A. P., Bertelsen, P., & Pedersen, M. U. (2018). Life skills development of teenagers through spare-time jobs.

Working paper
2018

Lesner, R. V., Gallen, Y., Bagger, J., & Vejlin, R. M. (2018). The Gender Earnings Gap: An Early Career Perspective.

Scientific article
2018
  • Children, youth and family

Vammen Lesner, R. (2018). The Long-Term Effect of Childhood Poverty. Journal of population economics, 31(3), 969-1004. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0674-8

Areas

VIVE – The Danish Centre for Social Science Research provides knowledge that contributes to developing the welfare society and strengthening quality development, efficiency enhancement and governance in the public sector, both in municipalities, regions and nationally.
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