This paper analyzes the costs and benefits of job rotation as a mechanism through which the firm learns about the employees' productivities and the profitability of different jobs or activities. We compare job rotation to an assignment policy where employees specialize in one job along their...

The aim of this paper is to test three theories for why firms introduce job rotation schemes: <p> employee learning, employer learning, and employee motivation. The earlier literature has made <p> use of either information about establishment characteristics or data coming from personnel <p> records of a...</p></p></p>