Another hygiene factor – wage level – was of greater
importance to the resident community members than to those of
the migrant community. This hints at a possible compensation
between the two factors, that is ‘meeting new people’ seems to
make up for a low wage level among the migrant community
and vice versa for the resident community, which is less
enchanted by meeting new people but more concerned about
wage level. This relation is probably the reason why resident
loads negatively on hygiene factors in the SEM model presented
in Fig. 5. The negative sign indicates that for non-residents
(migrants) hygiene factors, and particularly ‘meeting new
people’, are more important. This line of reasoning corresponds
well with deLeon and Taher’s (1996) findings that extrinsic
rewards (i.e. hygiene factors) are of two types: organizational
(e.g. pay, working conditions) and social (e.g. friendship, dealing
with others).