Why do Chinese migrant workers return? Exploring economic push-pull factors and emotional ties

• Qiong Zhou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Zhe Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation College of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China

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• Lining Zeng ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: zenglining@hufe.edu.cn (LZ); kofxujun@163.com (JX)

  Affiliation College of Business Administration, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha, Hunan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4196-3319

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• Jun Xu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization

  * E-mail: zenglining@hufe.edu.cn (LZ); kofxujun@163.com (JX)

  Affiliation College of Sports, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, Changsha, Hunan, China

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