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It is normal for the income and substitution effect work against one another in this case because an increase in the price of leisure also increases income, unlike the pure consumption case when the increase in the price of a good acts like an income reduction.
Our question remains though, how could the labor supply curve ever be backward bending? Our results here are consistent with a standard, upward sloping supply curve.
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