Zhang lives in a rural farm community in China. He is thinking about moving to the coast, where manufacturing and construction jobs are abundant. The wages he can earn there are more than he could earn in his home community. For Zhang and many other rural Chinese, the prospect of better wages in other locations are a migration __________.

A) brain drain factor
B) direct investment
C) push factor
D) pull factor


D) pull factor

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A. 14th B. 15th C. 19th D. 26th

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A. 8th B. 19th C. 24th D. 53rd

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A. Solomon Asch B. Albert Bandura C. Muzafer Sherif D. Leon Festinger

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