An Explanation of Security Factors Influencing Investor's Tendency towards Migration

Capital and security are like two wings of a bird and always have interaction with each other so that capital cannot be understood without security. Because of this, owners of capital have always been strong supporters of security. Therefore, we can say that providing security is one of the main factors of strengthening or weakening of investment absorption in a Society. East Azerbaijan province is one of the most migrant-exporting provinces in Iran to such a scale that immigrant transmission rates of this province have been even more than provinces which have experienced war, such as Ilam and Khuzestan provinces. The results of general censuses of population and housing for decades of 60s, 70s and 80s confirm the above claim. In this context, the present paper investigates components of security which influence investor's tendency towards immigration from East Azerbaijan province. This Research was done through survey and the population investors under study in the province of East Azerbaijan is approximately 8794 individuals, of whom 390 were selected using stratified random sampling method. The data was collected via questionnaire. Research hypotheses include increase in rate of satisfaction from police performance leads to reduce in the tendency of investors to migrate, increase in investor's psychological security, leads to reduce in the tendency of investors to migrate, increase in police security, leads to reduce in the tendency of investors to migrate, and promoting and protecting the social status of investor in the province, leads to reduce in their tendency to migrate. For preliminary analysis SPSS version 21 is used and for modelling effective factors of the study Lisrel software, version 8/5, is used.Discussion of Results & Research findings show that rate of investor's tendency towards migration from the province is above the moderate level. Also, descriptive analysis of the research variables show that investor's satisfaction with police performance, police security, psychological security, and promoting of social status, is above the moderate level. There is a significant relationship between variables of police performance, police security, psychological security, and promoting of social status with the rate of investor's tendency towards migration from the province. Taken together, these variables explain 26 percent of the dependent variable. Final model produced in the Lisrel software indicate that the most important variables influencing investor's tendency towards migration from the province are police performance and promoting the status of investors.