although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …

risk. However, it is only recently that this intuitive notion has been formalized and axiomatically characterized. We … one can jointly estimate attitudes towards uncertainty, attitudes towards risk, and subjective probabilities in a rigorous … uncertainty aversion in an empirically tractable manner. Our results show that attitudes towards risk and uncertainty can be …

parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … anticipate that the market provides compensation for risk, as has been established with Risk Augmented Mincer earnings equations …

variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

model with idiosyncratic labor income risk. In our model economy, even a moderate earnings testing reduces individuals …

uncertainty ; wage shocks ; risk sharing ; wage insurance …