Multiple job holding: the artist’s labor supply approach

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

No 1906, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Labor supply; time allocation; artist’s labor supply; cultural economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 Z11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cul and nep-upt
Date: 2006-11
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