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  2. Push and pull factors in migration - Wikipedia

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    Push and pull factors in migration according to Everett S. Lee (1917-2007) are categories that demographers use to analyze human migration from former areas to new host locations. Lee's model divides factors causing migrations into two groups of factors: push and pull.

  3. Rural flight - Wikipedia

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    As with other human migration, various push and pull factors contribute to rural flight: lower levels of (perceived) economic opportunity in rural communities versus urban ones, lower levels of government investment in rural communities, greater education opportunities in cities, marriages, increased social acceptance in urban areas, and higher ...

  4. Immigration - Wikipedia

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    Factors contributing to these trends include imprisonment for migration-related offenses, [285] systemic bias in policing and judicial processes, and socioeconomic disparities. These factors may inflate crime statistics for immigrant populations relative to their real criminal rate.

  5. Human capital flight - Wikipedia

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    In source countries, lack of opportunities, political instability or oppression, economic depression, health risks and more (push factors) [26] contribute to human capital flight, whereas host countries usually offer rich opportunities, political stability and freedom, a developed economy and better living conditions (pull factors) [26] that ...

  6. Emigration - Wikipedia

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    Demographers distinguish factors at the origin that push people out, versus those at the destination that pull them in. [8] Motives to migrate can be either incentives attracting people away, known as pull factors, or circumstances encouraging a person to leave. Diversity of push and pull factors inform management scholarship in their efforts ...

  7. International factor movements - Wikipedia

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    In international economics, international factor movements are movements of labor, capital, and other factors of production between countries. International factor movements occur in three ways: immigration / emigration , capital transfers through international borrowing and lending, and foreign direct investment . [ 1 ]

  8. Migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council region

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    Together with the oil boom, it constituted an important factor explaining the importation of migrant workers and economic development. [15] The third wave of migration in the GCC can be attributed to the 1960s but intensified during the 1970s, [12] as the increased wealth of the states led to plans of industrialization and modernization.

  9. Net migration rate - Wikipedia

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    Migration occurs over a series of different push and pull factors that revolve around social, political, economical, and environmental factors according to Migration Trends. [ 3 ] Social migration is when an individual migrates reunite with family members, or to live in an area or country with which they identify more with (i.e., moving to an ...