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
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.

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, 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

Scientific article
2015

Rune Vammen Lesner

Key Expertise:

Selected publications

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

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