Job (In)Security and Workers’ Training Decisions: A Framing Approach

Context: In this study, we attempt to contribute to the scarce evidence about the relation-ship between perceived labour market insecurity and worker training investments. Drawing on existing research into framing in decision-making, we investigate whether framing the labour market as insecure increases the willingness of workers to invest in training. We also investigate whether this effect is larger when training contract terms are favourable, such as when training is done mostly in an employer’s time, or when no payback clause is included.