3. Consider a representative consumer who has preferences over an aggregate consumption good e and leisure....
Consider a representative consumer who has preferences over an aggregate consumption good c and leisure l. Her preferences are described by the utility function: U(c,l) = ln(c) + ln(l) The consumer has a time endowment of h hours which can be used to work at the market or enjoyed as leisure. The real wage rate is w per hour. The worker pays a proportional wage tax of rate t, so the worker’s after-tax wage is (1−t)w. The consumer also has...
A representative consumer has preferences described by the utility function: uc, 1) = ln(c- c) + Inl where c denotes consumption and I leisure. The parameter o captures the level of subsistence consumption. Assume that the total number of hours available to the worker are h = 1. The consumer/worker receives the wage, w, for her labor services. A. Obtain the labor supply curve. B. Introduce a proportional tax on labor income, T. Obtain the new labor supply curve. C....
3. Consider a consumer who has well-behaved preferences over leisure (L) and consumption (x) They have nonlabor income m and have 24 hours in the day that must be divided between leisure and working. They are initially paid a wage w for each hour of work. The price of x is 1 (a) Suppose they optimally choose to work 8 hours. Draw the consumer's budget set and an indifference curve showing this situation. (b) Now suppose that they are paid...
Problem 3: Inelastic labor supply A representative consumer has preferences described by the utility function: u(c) = ln c, where c denotes consumption. Assume that the total number of hours available to the worker are h¯ = 1. The consumer/worker receives the wage, w, for her labor services. A. Obtain the labor supply curve. B. Introduce a proportional tax on labor income, τw. Obtain the new labor supply curve. C. Introduce a proportional tax on consumption, τc. Obtain the new...
13) Consider the standard labor-leisure choice model. Consumer gets utility from consumption (C) and leisure (L). She has H total hours. She works N S hours and receives the hourly wage, w. She has some non-labor income π and pays lump-sum tax T. Further suppose (π – T) > 0. The shape of utility function is downward-sloping and bowed-in towards the origin (the standard U- shaped case just like a cobb-douglas function) If this consumer decides to NOT WORK AT...
4. Let a person's utility function over consumption, X, and leisure, L, be given by U = XL2, SO MUx = L2 and MUL = 2xL.The individual may work up to 24 hours per day at wage rate, w = $10 per hour, and he has non-labor income of $50 per day. The price of x, px, is $5. (a) Find the utility-maximizing x and L. (b) Show that at the utility- maximizing quantities of x and L, the consumer's...
Problem 2 A consumer has the following preferences regarding consumption and leisure time: ?(?, ?) = ? ∙ (24 − ?) Where ? is the quantity of an aggregated consumption good and ? are the supplied labour hours (working in a job) per day, and consequently, 24 − ? is the leisure time ?. The budget available for daily consumption is the sum of labour income and other fixed (daily) income with ? = price of the aggregated consumption good...
A worker's preferences over consumption (c) and leisure (l) can be represented by U(cl) = cl. The price of consumption is given by p = 1 and the wage by w=1 (a) Suppose we measure leisure in hours per day such that the maximum value I can take is 24. Let's represent hours worked by h; then we have h = 24-1. Write the Budget Constraint of this worker in terms of c and l. (b) Explain briefly why w/p...
Question 2 (22 pts.) Consider a representative agent with preferences over consumption c and leisure l represented by (c,)In c+Inl. Her budget constraint is c S wN, where w is the wage rate and N-the number of hours worked. The representative agent also chooses how to allocate her time between work and leisure activities given her time constraintl+N-h, where h is the total number of hours. We were unable to transcribe this image
Consider an economy in which the representative consumer preferences are described by U(C, l) = 0.9 ln(C) + 0.1 ln(l). The total number of hours available to the representative consumer is h = 1, and the market real wage is w. The representative firm produces the final consumption good using the technology function Y = zN where N is the labour, and z = 2. Assume the government sets the level of its spending to G = 0.75 which has...