摘要：The paper analyses the incentive to train of a multinational which decides to invest in a host country when a poaching threat exists from a potential local entrant. We give the multinational the possibility to choose the number of trained workers and model the proportion of the poached workers using a friction function depending on the salaries gap proposed by the two firms and the degree of labour mobility in the host country. We show how the renunciation to the training strategy by the multinational may constitute an entry barrier to the local firm. We also demonstrate that an increase of labour mobility degree do not systematically reduce the multinational’s incentive to train.
