Ivan faces a labor supply decision. His well-behaved preferences over the two goods "hours of leisure' L and 'consumption' c can be represented by u= 4(L)1/2 +c. He has no non-labor income and can choose how many hours to work at the wage rate u per hour. The price per unit of consumption is p, and his available free time is T hours Use the tangency method to find Ivan's demand functions for leisure and consumption (as functions of u, p. and T)
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Ivan faces a labor supply decision. His well-behaved preferences over the two goods "hours of leisure' L and 'consumption' c can be represented by u= 4(L)1/2 +c. He has no non-labor income and can choose how many hours to work at the wage rate u per hour. The price per unit of consumption is p, and his available free time is T hours
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- Ivan faces a labor supply decision. His well-behaved preferences over the two goods "hours of leisure' L and 'consumption' c can be represented by u= 4(L)1/2 +c. He has no non-labor income and can choose how many hours to work at the wage rate u per hour. The price per unit of consumption is p, and his available free time is T hours .a)Sketch Ivan's budget set, with axes, intercepts, and slope labeled (these will depend on the parameters w, p, and T) .b)Use the tangency method to find Ivan's demand functions for leisure and consumption (as functions of u, p. and T) .c) Let's think about Ivan's "time expansion path" (that is, the analog of the income expansion path a.k.a. income-consumption loci but for changes in T). Sketch it and explain why it has this shape. with reference to Ivan's demand functions.d) (3 points) In terms of parameters from the model, what is the most that Ivan would be willing to pay to have an extra hour of free time (that is, to increase T by 1)? Why?Ivan faces a labor supply decision. His well-behaved preferences over the two goods "hours of leisure' L and 'consumption' c can be represented by u= 4(L)1/2 +c. He has no non-labor income and can choose how many hours to work at the wage rate u per hour. The price per unit of consumption is p, and his available free time is T hours .a) Sketch Ivan's budget set, with axes, intercepts, and slope labeled (these will depend on the parameters w, p, and T) .b) Use the tangency method to find Ivan's demand functions for leisure and consumption (as functions of u, p. and T) .c) Let's think about Ivan's "time expansion path" (that is, the analog of the income expansion path a.k.a. income-consumption loci but for changes in T). Sketch it and explain why it has this shape. with reference to Ivan's demand functions.d) In terms of parameters from the model, what is the most that Ivan would be willing to pay to have an extra hour of free time (that is, to increase T by 1)? Why?John works in a shoe factory. He can work as many hours per day as he wishes at a wage rate w. Let C be the amount of dollars he spends on consumer goods and R. be the number of hours of leisure that he chooses. John's preferences are represented by U(C, R) = CR utility function Question 2 Part a John earns $8 an hour and has 18 hours per day to devote to labor or leisure, and he has $16 of nonlabor income per day. Draw John's indifference curves, budget constraints and solve for his optimal consumption and leisure choices.
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