Default options and training participation

Lex Borghans and Bart Golsteyn ()

Empirical Economics, 2014, vol. 46, issue 4, 1417-1428

Abstract: This article analyzes whether defaults affect the choice for courses followed at work. In addition, we analyze whether the size of the default effect varies with employees’ personality and skill-deficiencies. We perform an experiment in which workers are hypothetically offered three courses which they can accept or exchange for other courses. Randomizing the default package of courses, we identify the default effect. Default courses are chosen approximately three times more often than other courses. They are chosen more often if people have skill-deficiencies in these courses, suggesting that people consider the default to be an advice. Women choose default courses more often than men. Women with less self-confidence and men with lower cognitive skills choose the default courses more often. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Human capital investment; Training; Default; J24; J31; I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-013-0717-2

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