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

Table 1

Descriptive statistics.

Job dissatisfaction during two subsequent years and …	Frequency		Transition from … to job lock	Frequency		Transition from job lock to …	Frequency
	N	%		N	%		N	%
0 = mobile during at least one of the years (not in job lock)	1605	54.4	1 = dissatisfied and immobile	484	61.4	1 = dissatisfied and immobile	364	44.1
			2 = dissatisfied and mobile	51	6.5	2 = dissatisfied and mobile	78	9.5
1 = immobile during both years (in job lock)	1344	45.6	3 = satisfied and immobile	206	26.1	3 = satisfied and immobile	267	32.4
			4 = satisfied and mobile	47	6.0	4 = satisfied and mobile	116	14.1
Total	2949	100		788	100		825	100