Internal migration in Bohemia at the turn of the 20th century

The dissertation analyzes migration in Bohemia at the turn of the 20th century. It provides a comprehensive picture of migration in Bohemia at this time. This is accomplished by analyzing migration at both the macro and micro level. Macro level analysis gives a picture of migration flows across political districts given the attractiveness of political districts; micro level analysis focuses on the migration of families in the Pilsen region.; The macro analysis utilizes a unique data set which consists of migration flows across political districts and the public good expenditures of each political district. The uniqueness of the data set is established by matching the public good expenditures of more than two hundred counties with the data on migration flows across political districts. The multivariate regression analysis establishes the effect of the attractiveness of political districts, measured by the public good expenditures, on the migration across those districts.; The micro level analysis of migration deals with rural-urban migration of families during the Industrial Revolution in one of the most developed parts of the Austro-Hungarian empire---the Pilsen area. The analysis indicates that the household head's expected real rural-urban wage gap was not the main factor which led to the migration of families. Instead, the family migration decision-making process was more of a maximization of a dynastic utility function. The methodology of the control group technique is used to compare the exact structure of migrant families at the time of arrival to an urban area with the exact structure of families which stayed in the hinterlands. This, in addition to analyses of the expected rural-urban real wage gap, helps to analyze family migration motifs.