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 …

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 …

depending on migrants origins and the type of assets. Understanding migrants' wealth and their perceived degree of assimilation …

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 …