1. Chapter 6 Supply of Labor to the Economy: The Decision to Work

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5. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-5 Figure 6.1 An Individual Labor Supply Curve Can Bend Backward

6. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-6 Figure 6.2 Two Indifference Curves for the Same Person

7. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-7 Figure 6.3 An Indifference Curve

8. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-8 Figure 6.4 Indifference Curves for Two Different People

9. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-9 Figure 6.5 Indifference Curves and Budget Constraint

10. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-10 Figure 6.6 The Decision Not to Work Is a “Corner Solution”

11. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-11 Figure 6.7 Indifference Curves and Budget Constraint (with an increase in nonlabor income)

12. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-12 Figure 6.8 Wage Increase with Substitution Effect Dominating

13. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-13 Figure 6.9 Wage Increase with Income Effect Dominating

14. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-14 Figure 6.10 Wage Increase with Substitution Effect Dominating: Isolating Income and Substitution Effects

15. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-15 Figure 6.11 The Size of the Income Effect Is Affected by the Initial Hours of Work

16. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-16 Figure 6.12 Reservation Wage with Fixed Time Costs of Working

17. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-17 Figure 6.13 Budget Constraint with a “Spike”

18. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-18 Figure 6.14 Income and Substitution Effects for the Basic Welfare System

19. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-19 Figure 6.15 The Basic Welfare System: A Person Not Choosing Welfare

20. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-20 Figure 6.16 The Welfare System with a Work Requirement

21. Copyright © 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc.6-21 Example 6.6 Wartime Food Requisitions and Agricultural Work Incentives Data from: Jack Hirshleifer, Economic Behavior in Adversity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 16-21, 39-41.

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