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 …

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 …