Another push factor mentioned earlier was poor board and lodging, which left servants dissatisfied and sometimes resulted in a change of employer.
Push factors may be reactive to the current environment that has become unsuitable (through change in either the older person or the environment).
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.
