Isolating the Impact of Purchasing Power
When analyzing an individual's response to a wage increase, economists often construct a hypothetical scenario to isolate the 'income effect'. In your own words, explain what this hypothetical scenario entails and what specific aspect of the individual's decision-making it is designed to measure.
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An individual initially earns a wage of $20 per hour and chooses to have 16 hours of free time per day. Their wage then increases to $30 per hour, and they adjust their choice to 17 hours of free time per day. To understand this decision, an economist constructs a hypothetical scenario: if the individual were given a lump-sum payment of unearned income that made them just as well-off as the wage increase, but they still faced the original $20 wage, they would choose 18 hours of free time. Based on this information, what is the change in free time attributable purely to the income effect?
When decomposing the impact of a wage increase on an individual's choice of free time, the income effect is measured by finding the change in free time that would result from a hypothetical scenario where the individual faces the new, higher wage rate but is given a lump-sum tax just large enough to return them to their original level of utility.
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