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Impact of a Wage Increase on an Individual's Budget Constraint

An individual has 24 hours a day to allocate between work and free time, with consumption equal to their earnings. Initially, their hourly wage is €30. Suppose their wage increases to €40 per hour. Analyze how this wage increase affects their budget constraint and their set of possible choices. In your analysis, you must:

  1. Describe the change in the slope of the budget constraint and explain what this change represents in terms of the opportunity cost of free time.
  2. Explain whether the combination of 16 hours of free time and €240 of consumption, which was an option on the original budget constraint, is still an efficient choice on the new budget constraint. Justify your answer with a calculation.

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