Massachusetts Mercury, 10 June 1800 (vol. 15, no. 46) - Newspaper

Volume 15 no. 46 of the Massachusetts Mercury dated 10 June, 1800.

Thomas's Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester Gazette, 1 March 1815 (vol. 44, no. 2186) - Newspaper

Volumes of interest were published between 1812 and 1815 with articles about the War of 1812. Issue for Mar. 1, 1815: The front page of this issue has the: "TREATY Of Peace And Amity, Between his Britannick Majesty and the United States of America." Hereafter, and concluding on pg. 2, are the eleven articles of the treaty, signed in type: John Q. Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, Albert Gallatin, and several others. Page 2 also has the message from the President that he forwarded a copy of the treaty to Congress, signed in type: James Madison.

Notebook entitled Wages

Notebook entitled Wages (soft cover) – The book has mould spots on the pages. This does not affect the text. Names of wage earners include: Julia Park, Nancy McCoy, Nellie McCormick and Alice. Wages were paid by H.K. Woodruff, 1880.

Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway wages paid to John Brown

Port Dalhousie and Thorold Railway wages paid to John Brown (2 pages, handwritten) from Aug. 1855 – May 1856.

Letter to S.D. Woodruff from Louis Cabot of Brookline, Massachusetts

Letter to S.D. Woodruff from Louis Cabot of Brookline, Massachusetts asking if shares are transferable by lease, Jan. 3, 1884.

Monetary Policy When Wages Are Downwardly Rigid: Friedman Meets Tobin

In a monetary economy with downwardly rigid wages, the central banker should target a low, but strictly positive, inflation rate.

An analysis of the relationship between wages in the public and private sector in colombia : a panel data approach

This document examines the time-series properties of the wage differentials that arise between the public and private sector in Colombia during the sample period 1984 to 2005. We Find conflicting results in unit-root and stationary tests when looking at wage differentials at an aggregate level (such as for men, women or both). However, when we analyse wage differentials at higher levels of disaggregation, treat them jointly as a panel of data, and allow for the presence of potential cross section dependence, there is more supportive evidence for the view that wage differentials are stationary. This implies that although wage differentials do exist, they have not been consistently increasing (or decreasing) over time.

Business cycle asymmetries: Loss aversion, sticky prices, and wages

In this chapter, the Smets-Wouters (2003) New Kenesian model is reformulated by introducing the loss aversion utility function developed in chapter two. The purpose of this is to understand how asymmetric real business cycles are linked to asymmetric behavior of agents in a price and wage rigidities set up. The simulations of the model reveal not only that the loss aversion in consumption and leisure is a good mechanism channel for explaining business cycle asymmetries, but also is a good mechanism channel for explaining asymmetric adjustment of prices and wages. Therefore the existence of asymmetries in Phillips Curve. Moreover, loss aversion makes downward rigidities in prices and wages stronger and also reproduces a more severe and persistent fall of the employment. All in all, this model generates asymmetrical real business cycles, asymmetric price and wage adjustment as well as hysteresis.

Conflict, wages, and multiple equilibria

Firms’ compensation practices affect the protection of investors’ interests and the degree of economic inequality by changing the stakes of engaging in appropriation activities versus respecting the status quo. We use a general equilibrium model where workers can either work peacefully or join a guerrilla movement that expropriates entrepreneurs. If workers are peaceful, they receive a competitive wage. If they join a guerrilla movement, they receive a share of the appropriated wealth, which depends positively on the number of guerrilla members. In this framework, we find one low-income, low-wage equilibrium with guerrilla activity and one peaceful, high-income, high-wage equilibrium. The peaceful equilibrium can be reached through redistribution policies, which can be implemented at the firm level. In essence, through their compensation policies entrepreneurs, not the state might be able to protect their assets against expropriation and simultaneously control the internal principal-agent problem.

Los currícula de Historia y Ciencias Sociales en los centros privados de Enseñanza Secundaria en el Estado de Massachusetts.

En el tiempo comprendido entre 1989 y 1992, el autor intenta penetrar en los entresijos de la Educación norteamericana, situar el estado de las Ciencias Sociales en Estados Unidos, abordar el modelo educativo del Estado de Massachusetts y, finalmente, analizar los contenidos de los currícula de los centros privados de Enseñanza Secundaria de dicho Estado. El trabajo se basa en el análisis de los currícula de Historia y Ciencias Sociales en numerosos centros privados del Estado de Massachusetts, así como también en algunos públicos: contenidos de estas ciencias, modelos de evaluación, actitudes que pretenden fomentar, metolología, etc. La investigación se desarrolla en dos líneas claramente definidas, por un lado, trabajo de campo, muy costoso pero de gran interés, con visitas a centros y numerosas entrevistas con profesores; por otro, análisis y estudio de las fuentes bibliográficas y documentales: fuentes históricas, fuentes educativas generales, fuentes didácticas, especialmente de ciencias sociales (currículum del centro y currículum del área) y Bibliotecas públicas y universitarias. El contraste entre las ideas de la Reforma Educativa española y el modelo educativo de enseñanza privada norteamericano, es grande en unos casos y coincidente en otros. Coincide en objetivos y metodología. Difiere en su proyección y contenido social. Diríamos aún más, ¿está la sociedad española realmente preparada para asumir en su totalidad el coste de una educación tan selectiva? y ¿es ello deseable?. No olvidemos que las diferencias entre los centros públicos y los privados, en Secundaria son enormes. En los Estados Unidos la educación privada de élite, cara y diferenciada, se acerca aproximadamente al veinte por ciento; en España, hoy por hoy, este tipo de educación es sólo una mínima excepción. Mientras nos vayamos acercando, paso a paso, al modelo educativo privado norteamericano, aceptando una gran lentitud en el proceso, pero a cambio de que llegue a todos y cada uno de los ciudadanos, ese modelo será una meta a alcanzar, más o menos utópica - ¿no debe ser siempre un modelo la utopía? -, sin duda alguna.