The red budget shown to the right is a compensated budget by which we compensate our consumer for the income effect of the wage increase. Once we remove the income effect we see that the change in hours worked due purely to the substitution effect would have been even greater, she would have supplied 58 hours per week.

    The income effect alone would cause her to purchase more leisure and reduce labor supplied by 3 hours per week.


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