Table 2 Explaining Quit Considerations. Results from a logit regression specified in equation (3). The first model includes the months since January 2018 and until the end of the pre-pandemic period (February 2018), The second model includes the months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and until the end of our period of observation (March 2020–December 2021)

Mental health

1.968***

1.919***

(0.179)

(0.175)

Hating job

1.262***

1.319***

(0.147)

(0.128)

Work-related distress

0.342**

0.404***

(0.149)

(0.110)

Health issues

−0.110

0.167

(0.307)

(0.202)

Working from home

−0.461*

−0.461***

(0.270)

(0.168)

Salary negotiations

0.121*

0.208***

(0.0643)

(0.0644)

Promotions

−0.0279

−0.414**

(0.155)

(0.167)

Log-likelihood constant only model

−5306.67

−5275.789

Log-likelihood

−5046.806

−4926.843

Pseudo R-squared

0.049

0.066

Observations

14,549

14,722