- 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.
Online working papers
- Stephany, F., Dunn, M., Sawyer, S., & Lehdonvirta, V. Distancing Bonus or Downscaling Loss? The Changing Livelihood of US Online Workers in Times of COVID-19.
- Kässi, O., & Lehdonvirta, V. Do Digital Skill Certificates Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labour Platform.
- Kässi, O., Lehdonvirta, V. & Dalle, J.-M. Workers’ task choice heuristics as a source of emergent structure in digital microwork.
- Wood, A.J., & Lehdonvirta, V. Platform Labour and Structured Antagonism: Understanding the Origins of Protest in the Gig Economy.
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.