Why Do Some Employees Fall into and Fail to Exit a Job-Lock Situation?

Table 3

Results of multinominal logistic regression.

Explanatory variables	Transition from job lock to …: (reference category: dissatisfied and immobile)			Transition from … to job lock: (reference category: dissatisfied and immobile)
	Dissatisfied and mobile	Satisfied and immobile	Satisfied and mobile	Dissatisfied and mobile	Satisfied and immobile	Satisfied and mobile
	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio	Odds ratio
Sociodemographic features
Age	0.977	0.981*	0.933**	1.008	0.989	0.928**
Gender	1.298	0.698	0.577	0.751	0.764	0.662
Marital status	0.600	0.905	0.846	0.405**	0.743	0.496
Health problems: anxiety, depression, and so forth	2.129	0.814	1.457	0.499	0.941	0.447
Personality attributes:
Min peak-end self-esteem	0.689	0.409**	0.413*	0.685	0.557*	0.121**
Procrastination	1.137	1.149	1.436	0.609	1.982*	3.259*
Type of occupation (reference category: clerical and secretarial):
Manager and administrators	2.974*	2.285*	2.185	1.976	3.371**	12.505**
Professional	0.870	1.841	2.109	2.404	1.686	8.758**
Associate professional/technical	2.713	3.805**	2.652	0.473	2.989**	7.848*
Craft	0.342	1.521	0.913	0.100*	1.837*	3.725
Personal and protective service	1.563	3.381**	4.110*	7.748**	3.361**	3.215
Sales	1.820	0.905	1.947	1.445	1.560	7.070*
Plant and machine	0.296	0.925	0.396	0.778	1.171	6.499**
Other occupations	0.706	1.465	0.580	2.086	1.712	1.903
Type of sector: (reference category: other sectors):
Private	1.899	1.977*	3.112**	3.909*	1.114	0.225**
Civil	1.731	0.999	1.145	2.002	0.631	1.394
Governmental	1.239	1.346	0.907	0.847	1.293	0.276*
Employment conditions:
Full-time contract	0.430	0.627	0.129**	1.447	0.735	0.386
Employer pension scheme	1.796	1.349	1.811	0.832	1.508	0.660
On-job training	0.984	1.132	0.764	1.414	0.923	0.685
Promotion opportunities	3.991**	2.329**	14.572**	0.829	0.985	0.976
Member of the trade unions	0.532	0.667	0.608	0.546	0.968	1.636
Work-related contextual features:
Regional unemployment rate	0.836**	0.864**	0.818**	0.857*	0.794**	0.828*
Other model characteristics	Observations = 825			Observations = 782
	LR 𝜒^2 (df = 69) = 287.25			LR 𝜒^2 (df = 69) = 192.43
	Pseudo 𝑅^2= 0.1437			Pseudo 𝑅^2 = 0.1238

∗Significant at 5% level; **significant at 1% level.