Imagine a consumer - worker who has a total time endowment of 100 hours per week. He/She can use these hours for work or for leisure. All the money that he/she will gain from the work will use for consumption.
Imagine a consumer - worker who has a total time endowment of 100 hours per week. He/She can use these hours for work or for leisure. All the money that he/she will gain from the work will use for consumption.
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![Imagine a consumer - worker who has a total time endowment of T = 100 hours
per week. He/She can use these hours for work or for leisure. All the money
that he/she will gain from the work will use for consumption.
The Utility Function is
where C is consumption of consumer goods and R is consumption of leisure.
The wage rate is £20 per hour, and the price of consumer goods is £1.
Hours of labour supplied are denoted by L, where L = T - R.
i)
U-C1/2 R¹/2
What is the maximum value of the consumer - worker's income (full
income)?](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fa17e42c2-fde0-4a73-a34e-69e9dde35972%2F221344dd-405c-477e-8a34-201d79f81c9c%2F7qnutfk_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Imagine a consumer - worker who has a total time endowment of T = 100 hours
per week. He/She can use these hours for work or for leisure. All the money
that he/she will gain from the work will use for consumption.
The Utility Function is
where C is consumption of consumer goods and R is consumption of leisure.
The wage rate is £20 per hour, and the price of consumer goods is £1.
Hours of labour supplied are denoted by L, where L = T - R.
i)
U-C1/2 R¹/2
What is the maximum value of the consumer - worker's income (full
income)?
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The worker divides his times between the leisure and work. The wage rate encourages more supply while the non labor income discourages the labour supply.
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