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. …

uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households …, while accounting for the level of transfers from family abroad. We find that both the level and the uncertainty of … income hypothesis and theories of precautionary saving, a one standard deviation increase in the uncertainty of remittance …

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 …