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
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.

Scientific article
2018

Vammen Lesner, R. (2018). Testing for Statistical Discrimination based on Gender. Labour, 32(2), 141-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12120

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, Adolescents and Families

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

Scientific article
2015

Rune Vammen Lesner

Key Expertise:

Selected publications

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.

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

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

Vammen Lesner, R. (2018). Testing for Statistical Discrimination based on Gender. Labour, 32(2), 141-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12120

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

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

Vammen Lesner, R. (2015). Does Labor Market History Matter? Empirical economics, 48(4), 1327-1364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-014-0826-6

Areas

Children, Adolescents and Families

Labour Market

The Social Sector