The Adoption of Job Rotation: Testing the Theories

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 single firm. In order to improve upon this, we make use of a unique data set <p> constructed by merging information from a fairly detailed survey directed at Danish private <p> sector firms with a linked employer-employee panel data. This allows us to include firm and <p> workforce characteristics as well as firms HRM practices as explanatory variables, and hence to <p> carry out a more comprehensive analysis.