practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …

mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …

it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents. Applying the methodology of Cunha, Heckman, and Navarro (2005) to data … predictable and unpredictable components of earnings have increased in recent years. The increase in uncertainty is substantially … greater for unskilled workers. For less skilled workers, roughly 60% of the increase in wage variability is due to uncertainty …

This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …

Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard … to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial … their periods of uncertainty, moreover, these countries have experienced sharply falling fertility rates. Some have argued …

earnings variability are due to uncertainty and which components are due to components of human diversity that are forecastable …

Optimal layoff rules in closed form are derived for all workers in a firm that downsizes under uncertainty and faces … aircraft building company that went bankrupt in 1996 shows that workers with high uncertainty associated with higher than …