Many countries rely on monitoring of jobseekers and benefit sanctions in case of noncompliance with job search requirements to encourage job search and to prevent abuse of the social insurance system. However, so far only little is known about the optimal design of monitoring and sanction systems. In a model with worker heterogeneity and endogenous policy choice for each period in the unemploym...

In a survey of Australian citizens (valid N = 1,406), personal and social norms were found to moderate effects of deterrence on tax evasion. Personal, internalized norms of tax honesty were negatively related to tax evasion and moderated the effects of deterrence variables (i.e., sanction severity), suggesting deterrence effects only when individual ethics were weak. Perceived social norms, bey...

the sanction (tasvib) and the denigration (takhtia) problem is one of the differences of opinions between the moslems' usolist. for the answer to this question that which religion and belief follows the sanction or the denigration, there is no clear expression. whatever we see in the  principle imamye's writings,  they relate the  basis of  the  denigration to imamye and the basis of ...

As explained by Axelrod in his seminal work An Evolutionary Approach to Norms, punishment is a key mechanism to achieve the necessary social control and to impose social norms in a self-regulated society. In this paper, we distinguish between two enforcing mechanisms. i.e. punishment and sanction, focusing on the specific ways in which they favor the emergence and maintenance of cooperation. Th...

Sanctioning or punishing is regarded as one of the most important dynamics in the evolution of cooperation. However, it has not been empirically examined yet whether or not such enforcement selection by sanctioning or punishing and classical theories like kin or reciprocity selection are separate mechanisms contributing to the evolution of cooperation. In addition, it remains largely unclear wh...

This chapter surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of the analysis addresses the following basic questions: Should the form of the sanction imposed on a liable party be a fine, an imprisonment term, or a combination of ...