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FIGURE 13.5 The Consumption–Leisure Choice
An increase in the wage from W1 to W2 shifts the budget constraint from BC1 to BC2, and the optimal consumption–leisure bundle changes from A to B. The substitution effect of the wage increase, which decreases leisure and increases consumption because leisure has become relatively more costly, accounts for the shift from bundle A to A′, the tangency of U1 and BC′. The shift from A′ to B is the income effect.