Job rotation denotes employees' lateral transfers between jobs within the same firm (Campion et al., 1994). This study is the first that tests empirically Ortega's (2001) employer learning argument, i.e., the employer learns about the employee if the latter rotates jobs. Consistent with his...

The paper provides empirical evidence how promotion incentives and performance pay are related to nonverifiable human capital acquisition contingent on its grade of firm specificity. Consistent with Prendergast (1993), I document that promotion incentives are positively related to nonverifiable...