Careers
Magnus Lofstrom
Magnus Lofstrom is a Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). His research interests include immigration, self-employment, education, welfare and earnings inequality, and he specializes in demography. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego in 1999.
Prior to joining the PPIC, Lofstrom was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has also served as a researcher and taught at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) at the University of Bonn and at the University of California, Irvine. He also holds appointments as a research fellow at IZA and a research associate at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
Lofstrom's work has been published in journals such as Journal of Human Resources, Demography, Small Business Economics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Population Economics and Industrial Relations and in numerous edited volumes.
His current research projects focus on unauthorized immigration, temporary worker programs and low-skilled and minority entrepreneurship.