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Wages influence labor supply through the substitution effect and income effect. At low wage levels, higher wages increase labor supply as the substitution effect encourages more work, while at high wage levels, the income effect may lead to a decrease in labor supply, resulting in a backward bending labor supply curve. This curve reflects that at high wages, the income effect outweighs the substitution effect, causing workers to supply less labor.

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Question Three

Wages influence labor supply through the substitution effect and income effect. At low wage levels, higher wages increase labor supply as the substitution effect encourages more work, while at high wage levels, the income effect may lead to a decrease in labor supply, resulting in a backward bending labor supply curve. This curve reflects that at high wages, the income effect outweighs the substitution effect, causing workers to supply less labor.

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QUESTION THREE; How do wage affects labor supply?

Wages affect labor supply through the substitution effect and income effect.
(A) Substitution effect.
-When wages increases, the substitution effect encourages workers to supply more labor because
leisure becomes more expensive relative to work, so people tend to work more hours.
-At low wage levels, the substitution effect dominates, so labor supply increases as wages rises.

(B) Income effect.


- The income effect may lead workers to supply less labor since higher wages allow them to
maintain the same income with fewer working hours.
- At high wage levels, the income effect may dominate causing labor supply to decrease, resulting
in a backward bending labor supply curve.

Short explanation about the supply curve;


- At low wages, higher wages increase labor supply due to the substitution effect.
- At high wages, further wage increases reduce labor supply as income effect dominates.
This creates a backward bending labor supply curve, The labor supply curve bends backwards
because at high wage levels the income effect outweighs the substitution effect.

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