Decision Making Processes Under Uncertainty

This paper utilises panel data from rural India on a daily rated labour market to examine how workers deal with the uncertainty which arises from the existence of involuntary unemployment. In particular, it measures the Expected Utility Model (EUM) with linear and nonlinear objective probabilities; the EUM with linear and nonlinear subjective probabilities. The econometric analysis indicates that the decision making model is under uncertainty and that people work out their subjective probabilities through their past experiences. Finally, agents in the sample turn out to be risk-averse and not to have a positive reservation wage

Econometric analysis · Econometric model · Econometrics · Economics · Involuntary unemployment · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Reservation · Reservation wage · Sample (material · Unemployment · Wage · Agricultural risk and resilience · Computer Science · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact