- Martindale, N. & Lehdonvirta, V. (2023) Labour market digitalization and social class: evidence of mobility and reproduction from a European survey of online platform workers. Socio-Economic Review.
- Kässi, O, and V Lehdonvirta. (2022) Do Microcredentials Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labor Platform. Journal of Human Resources.
- Wood, A. J., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2022) Platforms disrupting reputation: Precarity and recognition struggles in the remote gig economy. Sociology.
- Braesemann, F., Stephany, F., Teutloff, O., Kässi, O., Graham, M., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2022) The global polarisation of remote work. PLOS One.
- 2021) Dynamics of contention in the gig economy: Rage against the platform, customer or state? New Technology, Work and Employment. , & (
- Stephany, F., Kässi, O., Rani, U., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2021). Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market. Big Data & Society.
- Kässi O, Lehdonvirta V and Stephany F. (2021). How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment. Open Research Europe, 1:53.
- Stephany, F. (2021) One size does not fit all: Constructing complementary digital reskilling strategies using online labour market data. Big Data & Society, 8(1).
- Wood, A. J. and Lehdonvirta, V. (2021) Antagonism beyond employment: how the ‘subordinated agency’ of labour platforms generates conflict in the remote gig economy. Socio-Economic Review.
- Stephany, F., Dunn, M., Sawyer, S., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2020). Distancing Bonus Or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of Us Online Workers in Times of COVID‐19. Journal of Economic and Human Geography, 111(3), 561-573.
- Braesemann, F., Lehdonvirta, V., & Kässi, O. (2020) ICTs and the Urban-Rural Divide: Can Online Labour Platforms Bridge the Gap? Information, Communication & Society. [open access version]
- Lehdonvirta, V., Kässi, O., Hjorth, I., Barnard, H., & Graham, M. (2019) The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders. Journal of Management 45(2): 567-599.
- Wood, A., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V., and Hjorth, I. (2019) Networked but commodified: The (dis)embeddedness of digital labour in the gig economy. Sociology 53(5): 931-950.
- Wood, A.J., Lehdonvirta, V., & Graham, M. (2018) Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation in six Asian and African countries. New Technology, Work and Employment 33(2): 95-112.
- Kässi, O., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2018) Online Labour Index: Measuring the Online Gig Economy for Policy and Research. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 137: 241-248. [open access version]
- Lehdonvirta, V. (2018) Flexibility in the Gig Economy: Managing Time on Three Online Piecework Platforms. New Technology, Work & Employment 33(1): 13-29.
- Corporaal, G.F., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2017) Platform Sourcing: How Fortune 500 Firms are Adopting Online Freelancing Platforms. Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute.
- Kässi, O., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2016) Building the Online Labour Index: A Tool for Policy and Research. Paper presented at the CSCW 2016 workshop on The Future of Platforms as Sites of Work, Collaboration and Trust, San Francisco, California, 27 February.
Working papers
- Dunn, M., Stephany, F., Sawyer, S., Munoz, I., Raheja, R., Vaccaro, G., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2020). When Motivation Becomes Desperation: Online Freelancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Kässi, O., Lehdonvirta, V. & Dalle, J.-M. Workers’ task choice heuristics as a source of emergent structure in digital microwork.
Publications from related research projects
- Ogembo, D., & Lehdonvirta, V. (2020) Taxing Earnings from the Platform Economy: An EU Digital Single Window for Income Data? British Tax Review [2020](1): 82-101.
- Wood, A. J, Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V., & Hjorth, I. (2019) Good gig, bad gig: autonomy and algorithmic control in the global gig economy. Work, Employment and Society 33(1): 56-75.
- Lehdonvirta, V. (2016) Algorithms That Divide and Unite: Delocalization, Identity, and Collective Action in ‘Microwork’. In: J. Flecker (ed.), Space, Place and Global Digital Work. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp. 53-80.
- Lehdonvirta, V., Hjorth, I., Graham, M., & Barnard, H. (2015) Online Labour Markets and the Persistence of Personal Networks: Evidence From Workers in Southeast Asia. Paper presented at American Sociological Association Annual Meeting 2015, Chicago, August 22-25.
- Lehdonvirta, V. & Ernkvist, M. (2011) Knowledge Map of the Virtual Economy. Washington DC: World Bank.