Multiple job holding: the artist’s labor supply approach

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Multiple job holding: the artist’s labor supply approach

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Carlos Casacuberta (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)
Néstor Gandelman (Universidad ORT, Uruguay)

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This paper analyzes a labor supply model in which individuals maximize a utility function that depends on leisure time, consumption and time devoted to an activity that is termed “artistic”. This activity may generate income that depends non linearly on hours dedicated to it. The individual can also work in the labor market (an activity that does not increase utility by itself) in exchange for an hourly wage, and obtain income not related to hours. Conditions are obtained that sort individuals in two groups, part time and full time artists, deriving their labor supply functions in both activities. The predictions of the model are tested empirically using a sample of musicians from a Uruguayan performing rights society.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics - dECON in its series Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) with number 1906.

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Length: 34 pages
Date of creation: Nov 2006
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J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature

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NEP-ALL-2007-02-24 (All new papers)
NEP-CUL-2007-02-24 (Cultural Economics)
NEP-UPT-2007-02-24 (Utility Models & Prospect Theory)

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Blaug, Mark, 2001. " Where Are We Now on Cultural Economics?," Journal of Economic Surveys, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 15(2), pages 123-43, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Franco Papandrea & Robert Albon, 2004. "A Model of Employment in the Arts," Australian Economic Papers, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 43(3), pages 277-287, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Singer, Leslie P, 1981. "Supply Decisions of Professional Artists," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 71(2), pages 341-46, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Shishko, Robert & Rostker, Bernard, 1976. "The Economics of Multiple Job Holding," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 66(3), pages 298-308, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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