If an area lacks jobs, which type of migration may increase?

Correct answer: Emigration

Direct answer: Option B, emigration, is correct. Lack of employment is a push factor. It may encourage people to leave their present area and search for work elsewhere. When people move out of an area, the movement is called emigration from that area’s viewpoint. Option B is correct because unemployment can push residents to other places. Option A, immigration, means entering an area; the question focuses on leaving the area with few jobs, although the same people could become immigrants in the destination area. Option C, births, are biological events and are not a type of migration. Option D, natural increase, means births minus deaths and is also not migration. A useful distinction is viewpoint: a person leaving one region is an emigrant from the origin, but an immigrant in the destination. Memory cue: push factors push people out; pull factors draw people in.