This article analyzes the costs and benefits of job rotation as a mechanism with which the firm can learn about the employees' productivities and the profitability of different jobs or activities. I compare job rotation to an assignment policy where employees specialize in one job along their...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to document the use and the diffusion of the “new” <p> compensation and work organisation practices in Danish private sector firms and second, to <p> examine how and why firms differ regarding the adoption of different schemes. The analysis is <p> based on a...</p></p></p>

We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private sector firms merged to a large matched employer-employee database. Self-managed teams, project...