Fredrik Andersson

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the extent to which non-prime mortgage borrowers prioritize payments on their monthly mortgage over credit card debt obligations over a nine year period (2001-2009).

TL;DR: This article used matched employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database on a set of metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) with substantial immigrant populations.

TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which nonprime mortgage borrowers prioritize payments on their monthly mortgage over credit card debt obligations over a 9-year period (2001-09) and found that consumers were eight times more likely to prioritize payments of mortgage debt over credit-card debt obligations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored rich longitudinal data to gain a better understanding of the importance of spatial mismatch in lower-paid workers' job search, and found that better access to jobs causes a statistically significant but modest decrease in the duration of joblessness among lower paid displaced workers, while an abundance of competing searchers for those jobs increases duration modestly.

TL;DR: It is found that industry, language, and residential segregation collectively explain almost all the excess tendency to work with immigrants from other source countries, but they have limited power to explain work with compatriots.