EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

A market design approach to job rotation

Jingsheng Yu and Jun Zhang

Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, vol. 120, issue C, 180-192

Abstract: Organizations often rotate employees' jobs. This paper proposes a market design approach to organize job rotation. In our model each employee has occupied a position, and if any employee wants to move to another position, the current occupier must leave the position. This requirement is described by a priority structure in which each employee has the lowest priority for his position and others have the equal priority. It is the “opposite” to the famous housing market priority structure in which every owner has the highest priority for his endowment and others have the equal priority. We adapt Top Trading Cycle to solve our model. Our mechanism is novel in that employees are not allowed to point to their positions during the mechanism and cycles are cleared by backward induction after all of them are generated. Our mechanism is stable, constrained efficient and weakly group strategy-proof.

Keywords: Job rotation; Coarse priority; Backward-induction Top Trading Cycle; Constrained efficiency; Strategy-proofness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 C78 D78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899825620300038
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:120:y:2020:i:c:p:180-192

DOI: 10.1016/j.geb.2020.01.002

Access Statistics for this article

Games and Economic Behavior is currently edited by E. Kalai

More articles in Games and Economic Behavior from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().

 
Page updated 2025-03-19
Handle: RePEc:eee:gamebe:v:120:y:2020:i:c:p:180-192