Tünde Cserpes  | チェルペス・テュンデ (椿丁)

The Residuals Lab (ResLab) provides a shared research architecture for projects that examine how out-of-work circumstances shape careers and organizations. We focus on social market frictions: work-relevant dynamics that originate outside formal employment but carry consequences within it. Our work depends on hard-to-combine capacities: data competence, investigative imagination, and access work. It is one thing to build a clean research design. It is another to recognize that additional institutional data beyond standard registers should exist and then steward your way into getting it. ResLab works with people who are open to combining these capacities.

Our projects also share a design logic. We rely on observational data and standard econometric tools, but we theorize from nonstandard variation. At ResLab, the residual is not noise. It is the signal of people navigating complex systems.

 

Many of the datasets we use had never been accessible to researchers. On each project, we add these new sources to the existing register data housed at Statistics Denmark. Gaining access often meant navigating years of procedural resistance, involving not only formal clearance processes but also the slower, informal work of building trust with the civil servants and system owners responsible for safeguarding data. The analytical payoff lies in what the combined data make visible: patterns and relationships that registers alone flatten, filter out, or simply did not capture previously.