The economic disadvantage of rural areas is the main push factor for rural depopulation.
In addition, a pull factor, engagement in work, encouraged the preference to stay longer, while above-average engagement in private life was another push factor.
Therefore, this moralistic attitude, even if it did not always reflect reality, may have constituted a push factor.
Rather, it was general under-employment in agriculture that constituted the push factor.
Even bad relations between master and servant constituted a push factor, especially on large farms and estates, where the social gap between them was larger.
The erosion of traditional institutions and behaviours due to modernization has also received attention as a push factor in a number of historical, sociological, anthropological, studies.
Another push factor mentioned in the retrospective accounts is that poor harvests or crop failure could reduce the need for labour in the local community and give rise to migration.
There was also a push factor, in that there was heavy unemployment in the countries they left.
When talking about people-trafficking we often use the terms 'push factor' and 'pull factor'.
In his words, there should be a pull factor, not a push factor—which means that the industry should be market-led.
We know that poverty is the principal reason, the push factor, both social and economic poverty.
It is not just a question of our pull factor; the push factor is also important.
This is a major push factor.
In another study, anomie was seen as a push factor in tourism.
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Together these two work-related push factors accounted for just over 10% of responses.
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