Hoyeon Lee
Ph.D. Candidate · Public and Urban Policy · The New School for Social Research
I study how institutions and employment structures reorganize inequality in an age of technological change. Drawing on political economy and economic sociology, my research examines labor markets, automation, migration, and platform work through longitudinal data, qualitative interviews, and institutional analysis.
Inequality
Labor Market Stratification
Labor Market Institutions
Technology & Work
Migration & Labor Markets
Artificial Intelligence
Current Research
Rethinking Labor Market Inequality in South Korea: Automation, Institutions, and Stratification
My dissertation examines how automation reshapes labor market inequality by reallocating economic risks across stratified employment relations. The project combines longitudinal panel data, qualitative interviews, and institutional analysis to explain how employment structures mediate technological change.
Committee: Sakiko Fukuda-Parr (Chair), Rachel Sherman, Ying Chen, William Milberg
Selected Highlights
Winner, LERA/AILR Best Paper Competition 2026
Labor and Employment Relations Association
William R. Waters Research Grant 2026 · $5,000
Association for Social Economics
ICI-Starr Student Fellowship 2026 · $3,500
India China Institute, The New School
WINIR Young Scholar 2026
World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research