Technology & InnovationLabor MarketDeveloping and Emerging Economies
Kyunglin Park
PhD Student in Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Preferred name: Lin Park
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About me
I am a PhD student in Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, with a focus on labor economics and the economics of technology. Born and raised in South Korea, my path to academic research has evolved around policy institutions across countries such as Eastern Europe, Latin America, Central Asia, and Asia — an experience that continues to shape the questions I explore.
My academic profile uses Kyunglin Park, with Lin Park as a preferred short name.
- PhD in Public Policy, Current Carnegie Mellon University
- MSc in Local Economic Development, 2019–2020 London School of Economics and Political Science
- BA in Economics, 2014–2019 Sogang University
Profile
Research journey
My passion for economics research began at UNDP Belarus, through which I gained firsthand experience of how development policy works on the ground and what developing countries are facing in the field. That motivated me to deepen my academic training through a master's in Local Economic Development at the London School of Economics. Back in Korea, I worked at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, drafting policy briefs on firm productivity and monetary policies, which became my first exposure to how research travels into legislative and policy settings. From there, I moved to the Inter-American Development Bank, where I mainly studied how China's trade shock reshaped local labor markets in Mexico. At the World Bank, I co-authored a Policy Research Working Paper on digital literacy and wages across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Building on the technology angle of labor market dynamics, in my PhD I am currently studying how AI and innovation are transforming employment, trade dynamics, and broader labor market outcomes.