enforcement regimes play an important role in shaping both baseline compliance rates and the response of compliance to increases …A holistic assessment of the labor market effects of minimum wage regulation requires understanding employer compliance … strength of enforcement regimes affect the prevalence of subminimum wage payments. We find strong evidence that higher minimum …

little public enforcement? This paper argues that this is partly because of a lack of an autonomous and professional … internalize the social benefits of enforcement (such as formal job creation and enhancement of the rule of law) because they take …

performance appraisalsystems, monitoring by supervisors, autonomy to organize the work) and individuals’inclination to trust …

Enforcing the compliance with job search obligations is a core task of conditional benefit systems like unemployment … insurance (UI) or welfare. For targeted policy design, it is key to understand how the enforcement regime affects job search … outcomes. This paper provides first estimates that separately identify the effects of increasing enforcement strictness in UI …

's school attendance. Using unique administrative data, we analyze how beneficiaries respond to the enforcement of … enforcement. As the severity of penalties increases with repeated noncompliance, households' response is larger when peers receive … enforcement. …

quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain …. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by the pushers' profit targeting behavior. Given that enforcement shocks …

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement … mystery shoppers. Instituting monitoring visits on an unpredictable schedule is more effective at reducing illegal sales. High … frequency monitoring to prevent displacement across weekdays to other markets backfires, because targeted agents learn faster …

borrowers. Lenders harass borrowers into compliance. We observe that different lenders apply different markups on different … borrowers. Higher markups discourage borrowers from repeatedly borrowing from a particular lender. Increased enforcement …