inputs that are likely to lead to environmental services. The paper examines the costs and benefits of monitoring these …

designs. Thus, the circumstances under which it is efficient to implement policies that do not motivate full compliance appear … regulators may conserve enforcement costs by implementing emissions taxes that firms evade. I demonstrate that a regulator can … use a firm’s tax evasion to reduce monitoring effort, but only if its monitoring strategy can be made an increasing …

enforcement, including the role of labor inspectors and approaches to compliance, and these and other variables can be analyzed to …The level of compliance with minimum wage laws often depends on factors specific to each labor market. In most … developing countries, a substantial share of workers still earns less than the legal minimum. Enforcement has not kept up with …

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 …

-wage benefits. Enforcement has not kept up with regulation growth and compliance has not been measured from a multidimensional …Compliance with minimum wage laws and non-wage conditions of employment often depends on labor market specific factors … countries where compliance is low. …

Can public shaming increase tax compliance through social pressure? Many tax authorities make ample use of public … shaming. However, empirical evidence from outside the laboratory on how a new shaming law affects overall compliance is …

carbon tax. In this paper, we consider and compare the enforcement problems associated with a tax regime and a cap …-and-trade regime, respectively. The paper tries to convey two main points. First, both types of regime require an effective enforcement … political process leading up to its adoption tends to water down the enforcement mechanism to a point where it no longer has …

Abstract Although most models of environmental compliance are based on a variation of the rational polluter model … complexity play in environmental compliance. The results suggest that both are necessary to explain hazardous waste compliance … behavior. In support of the rational polluter model, the results show that factors which increase the cost of compliance also …