Research

Publications

Kässi, Otto, and Vili Lehdonvirta. Do Microcredentials Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labor Platform. Journal of Human Resources (2022): 0519-10226R3.

Braesemann, Fabian, Vili Lehdonvirta, and Otto Kässi. ICTs and the urban-rural divide: can online labour platforms bridge the gap? Information, Communication & Society 25.1 (2022): 34-54.

Kässi Otto, Lehdonvirta Vili, and Stephany Fabian. How many online workers are there in the world? A data-driven assessment [version 4; peer review: 4 approved]. Open Res Europe, (2021) 1:53 

Stephany, F., Kässi, O., Rani, U., & Lehdonvirta, V.. Online Labour Index 2020: New ways to measure the world’s remote freelancing market. Big Data & Society (2021), 8(2), 20539517211043240.

Kässi, Otto, and Vili Lehdonvirta. Online labour index: Measuring the online gig economy for policy and research. Technological forecasting and social change 137 (2018): 241-248.

Lehdonvirta, Vili, Kässi, Otto, Hjorth, Isis, Barnard, Helen, & Graham, Mark. The global platform economy: A new offshoring institution enabling emerging-economy microproviders. Journal of Management (2019), 45(2), 567-599.

Kässi, Otto. Earnings dynamics of men and women in Finland: permanent inequality versus earnings instability. Empirical Economics (2014), 46(2), 451-477.

Working papers 

Braesemann, Fabian, Stephany, Fabian, Teutloff, Ole, Kässi, Otto, Graham, Mark, & Lehdonvirta, Vili. The polarisation of remote work. (2021)

Koski, Heli, Otto Kässi, and Fabian Braesemann. Killers on the road of emerging start-ups–implications for market entry and venture capital financing. 2020

Kässi, Otto, Vili Lehdonvirta, and Jean-Michel Dalle. Workers’ task choice heuristics as a source of emergent structure in digital microwork. (2019).

Publications in Finnish

Tulodynamiikka ja koulutuksen tuottoon liittyvät riskit, Kansantaloudellinen aikakauskirja 2015, 1.

Thesis

Studies on Earnings Dynamics and Uncertainty in Return to Education

See also my Google Scholar page.