Ministers harp on about the pull factor of benefits, but they entirely discount and never mention the tremendous push factors behind those waves of economic refugees.
Pull factors, on the other hand, are the factors that are present in other places providing incentives to move.
Dissatisfaction in these respects was a motive for a change of employer, just as reports of better conditions somewhere else was a pull factor.
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.
But the motivation or 'pull factor' of poverty is not a simple story.
When talking about people-trafficking we often use the terms 'push factor' and 'pull factor'.
It is a key pull factor for illegal immigration.
We will take whatever measures are necessary to make sure that the pull factor that might draw people here is closed off.
