Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each factor: push or pull?
Groups: Push · Pull
- War and conscription
- Religious persecution
- Famine in the home region
- A cousin with a spare room and a foreman who hires
- Available land to settle
- Higher wages at the destination
Hints
- One kind of factor drives people out, the other draws them in.
- Existing connections do more work than wage gaps.
Show the answer
Push: Famine in the home region, Religious persecution, War and conscription
Pull: Higher wages at the destination, Available land to settle, A cousin with a spare room and a foreman who hires
Why
A serviceable frame, as long as you remember the last item is doing far more work than the wage differential above it.
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