noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an incentive scheme (= in which people receive money to persuade them to work harder )
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There is a generous incentive scheme for the sales force.
package of measures/proposals/incentives etc
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The government has announced a package of measures to assist affected areas.
tax incentives (= lower taxes that encourage people to do something )
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We have introduced new tax incentives for savings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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added
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Rejects from London have an added incentive for putting their talents on show.
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A course available specifically designed for their needs at which they will meet others of their own age is an added incentive .
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In many cases, that has given the family an added incentive and advantage.
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As an added incentive , two complimentary tickets for the evening's disco are being offered for the winning entry.
economic
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The fact remains that any legal regime which lowers the economic incentive for drugs-crime will surely boost drug consumption.
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But Reimers, 62, said that universities have an economic incentive to stick to fundamental research.
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Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive .
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The measure seeks to take the economic incentive away from employing illegal immigrants.
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In terms of economic welfare, as in terms of economic incentives , the picture is again unclear.
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The people most likely to be affected by economic incentives are those who are the most economically vulnerable.
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Such an economic approach provides incentives to firms to find new techniques and new products which lead to lower pollutant emissions.
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He believed strongly in economic incentive .
extra
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It's an ominous warning which gives his players an extra incentive to impress against the Londoners tonight.
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Also a conservatory can improve the overall image and give an extra incentive to attract new customers.
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Although reward may not represent very much extra incentive for the bright and successful, it motivates the unsuccessful child highly.
financial
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Local NGOs Many donors provide financial incentives to local NGOs.
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The doctors in managed-care systems often have financial incentives to limit patients' use of laboratory tests, specialists and other services.
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The budget provided the financial incentive , but much confusion still abounds over the use of unleaded petrol.
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Executives are given head-count-reduction targets by their boards, and sometimes financial incentives are tied to reaching the targets.
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And they also believe that would-be organic farmers should be encouraged with financial incentives .
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Tanker and barge owners have a financial incentive to avoid oil spills, too.
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Different financial incentives change the nature of the educational experience and are not merely alternative ways of financing the same service.
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In affidavits, Dubuque employers predicted they could use financial incentives to prod workers to use out-of-town hospitals.
fiscal
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There were no fiscal incentives for the spenders to economise or for consumers to limit their demands.
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The production of renewable energy sources should also be promoted through grants, soft loans and fiscal incentives , the report concluded.
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He favours the use of fiscal incentives alongside regulation, particularly in the fields of carbon emissions and road haulage.
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The fiscal incentives for use of unleaded petrol have been a great success.
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In the first place, governments all over the world offer fiscal incentives to attract foreign firms to open factories.
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It was agreed to harmonize fiscal incentives for investors and to aim at the creation of a monetary union by 1995.
great
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The richer the city the greater the incentive to stifle opposition.
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The higher the price of the product, the greater the incentive to produce and offer it in the market.
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This served as a great incentive to spur her on.
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A rabbit running from a fox is running for its life, so it has the greater evolutionary incentive to be fast.
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Such a power could, more than anything, prove to be the greatest single incentive to cooperate.
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These workers are the most mobile and have the greatest incentive to evaluate carefully the relative and absolute risks.
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The smaller the task the greater the incentive .
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The greatest incentive , however, to reduce car use is to provide an efficient and popular public transport service.
little
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But if Mr Mugabe is on the way out, he has little incentive to drop his assault on the farms.
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But most talented people have little incentive to defer to an individual without a strong moral core.
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There was little incentive for them to be active in this regard, for only a few high-level headmen received a salary.
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That gives me little incentive to work.
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However, the brutal facts of the market suggest that there is little incentive anyway.
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It provides perhaps little incentive for most youngsters in today's affluent society.
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But there is little incentive to become an engineer in Britain.
major
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This ability is a major incentive within fundholding.
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This clearly provided a major incentive to the other two districts to achieve the development of new services.
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The access to data about treatment outcome and quality of care should be a major incentive for clinicians.
new
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The coverage of the scheme was widened further and new incentives were provided including a rehousing grant.
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He also told them about the new incentive plan that he had negotiated with Alpha for achieving the current plan.
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The expanding non-agricultural sector itself provided farmers with new opportunities and incentives .
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To some extent unconventional sources of natural gas, new technology, and new economic incentives , underlie this greater optimism.
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The eligibility criteria for the new incentives included the regional location, job creation and sectoral priority characteristics of new investment projects.
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It would be the first local-foreign joint venture to take advantage of new incentives that went into effect last June.
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We will introduce new environmental incentives .
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The latest monthly decline comes despite a new government-sponsored incentive program introduced in October to boost car sales.
other
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Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive .
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By passing on his skills he has given other youngsters the incentive to go on to achieve greater things.
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It recommended that the prohibition on contingency fees and other forms of incentive should be re-examined.
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Assorted tax breaks and other incentives may also be called for.
perverse
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There are grounds for suggesting that the market test can produce perverse incentives , as we have seen in Chapter 3.
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Much of the problem of the underclass, we continue to believe, arises from perverse incentives rooted in misguided paternalism.
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The upshot is that the conglomerates and the government have a perverse incentive to allow the system to continue to fester.
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Nevertheless, this raises questions about resourcing, the possibility of duplication of services and of perverse incentives .
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Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.
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What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions?
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Consultants were on lifetime contracts and had no reason to change. 3. Perverse incentives .
powerful
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The alternative was to be hanged, so there was a powerful incentive .
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Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.
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Markets necessarily act as a powerful incentive to producers to operate as efficiently as possible in order to survive. 2.
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These changes created powerful incentives to stay single and unemployed.
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Rural Metro is driven by the profit motive, a particularly powerful incentive in an employee-owned company.
special
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Stars and stripes in 9 carat gold Beaverbrooks offers Beaverbrooks offer special incentives for brides on wedding purchases.
strong
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However, the rational wealth maximizing company may refrain from such conduct even if there are strong incentives to use the information.
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There are strong economic incentives for corporations to be responsive to employees' personal needs.
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This is probably the strongest incentive of all.
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Again, the owners of these brand names have a strong incentive not to surprise you in an unpleasant way.
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Miss Probst points out that the law gives the private sector a strong incentive to clean up at the lowest possible cost.
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The tax system gives workers and their employers strong incentives to provide gold-plated health care rather than cash.
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That would create a group of stakeholders with a strong incentive to monitor the bank's credit quality.
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On the contrary, it constitutes the strongest incentive to end capitalism and build socialism.
■ NOUN
investment
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The effects of interest rates and the tax rate on investment incentives have been extensively studied.
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This trade-off underscores a serious tension between open architecture and investment incentive during the initial deployment and development of the I-way.
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I do not share the confidence of the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East in investment incentives .
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This issue needs to be closely examined to determine the correct balance between initial openness of the l-way architecture and investment incentives .
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Taxes are too high, investment incentives missing.
package
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There are two elements to this, first the composition of nationalized industry boards and secondly the managerial incentive package .
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The incentive package for management similarly differs quite substantially between the public sector and large private sector companies.
payment
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Some companies therefore give employees in the latter situation an additional incentive payment to encourage them to move.
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There are no incentive payments offered to staff who arrive at work by kayak.
program
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Such incentive programs are likely to cut a chunk out of profits.
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The latest monthly decline comes despite a new government-sponsored incentive program introduced in October to boost car sales.
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Rival Chrysler Corp. started its own incentive program in November.
scheme
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The effectiveness of incentive schemes is in practice hard to assess.
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Most builders operating incentive schemes employ a bonus surveyor to measure and calculate the bonus paid to each operative.
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There is a possibility that applying an incentive scheme to one parameter only may attach undue importance to it.
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It should be noted finally that depending on their design, incentive schemes may actually be counter-productive.
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Low job interest and morale could be improved by introducing pay incentive schemes , for instance.
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You might like to offer your employees a trip to Champneys as a reward in an incentive scheme .
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Partnership incentive schemes are comparatively rare but can result in a highly motivated and dedicated work-force.
tax
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Their inadequacy is often disguised by the tax incentives that many governments give to institutional saving.
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Or tax incentives encourage companies to stretch out downsizing and keep more jobs at home?
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We have introduced new tax incentives for savings.
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The tax incentive is applied generally to all adoptions, foreign and domestic.
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Encouragement has been made through tax incentives , so that pension savings are now one of the most tax effective investments available.
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The Industrial Development Department lured businesses with tax incentives and low wages.
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Indiana has sometimes spent too much on tax incentives to lure companies inside its borders.
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Encouragement in this direction was to be provided by tax incentives and state-subsidized research and development.
work
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It is thus important to see the influence of the taxation system on work incentives in this wider perspective.
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The bourgeois family model with its breadwinning husband and dependent wife and children was thus believed to secure male work incentives .
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Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.
■ VERB
act
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It would act as an incentive .
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One of the objectives of grant finance is to act as an incentive for investment from the private sector.
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Markets necessarily act as a powerful incentive to producers to operate as efficiently as possible in order to survive. 2.
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Thirdly, a new church springing up may act as an incentive to older churches to reach out again with the gospel.
add
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And he may have acquired an added incentive for wanting to make a good showing.
create
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By controlling inflation it created the conditions, by lowering taxes it created incentives .
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Guaranteed incomes create all the wrong incentives .
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Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.
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Governments have frequently made matters worse by granting concessions to cattle ranchers on terms that have created incentives for reckless exploitation.
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The existence of technological spillovers and positive pecuniary externalities create incentives to make such ventures as inclusive as possible.
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The real payoff comes when governments deregulate these systems, because they create the basic incentives that drive employees.
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We will create new incentives to follow environmentally sensitive strategies and behaviour.
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Differences such as these create fundamentally different incentives in the public sector.
encourage
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Some companies therefore give employees in the latter situation an additional incentive payment to encourage them to move.
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Or tax incentives encourage companies to stretch out downsizing and keep more jobs at home?
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Employers, therefore, have an interest in adopting incentives to encourage good performance even with only limited supervision.
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President Clinton Friday endorsed incentives designed to encourage states to move children more quickly from foster-care settings into permanent adoptive homes.
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Regulators have also seen how the existing Basle rules created perverse incentives that encouraged excessive risk-taking by banks.
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They have every incentive to encourage the belief that, to be a big-league city, you have to have big-league sports.
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About 2.5 million have benefited from tax incentives to encourage employee share schemes.
give
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Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets.
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You give people incentives , and they are going to produce more.
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However, if you do want to give an incentive for early payments, consider a settlement rebate.
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Requiring this investment will give absent fathers incentive to take a more active personal interest in their children as well.
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Currently covering only 4% of the country the scheme gives farmers cash incentives to help manage the countryside for wildlife.
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The fee-only planners say the commissions give planners an incentive to recommend products that may not be best for the client.
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We thank you for giving us the incentive to do this and wish you a Merry Christmas and happy New Year.
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Economists blamed the shortages on prices which gave little incentive to production.
improve
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Low job interest and morale could be improved by introducing pay incentive schemes, for instance.
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Lower marginal rates would also improve work incentives and shrink the black economy, which is said to be booming.
increase
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It predicts precisely the opposite human response to the substitution effect - higher taxes increase incentives to work.
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Nontraded goods produced with increasing returns create an incentive for factor movements, even when factor prices are equalized internationally.
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Old systems for protecting them are collapsing, and shrinking incomes increase the incentive to sell them.
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This has been done to increase the incentives the higher income groups have to work harder.
invest
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In turn, government should provide industry with incentives to invest in innovation.
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Also, will more efficient personal transportation detract from incentives to invest in mass transit?
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That provides not an incentive to invest but a disincentive - a penalty.
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Tiny producers, for example, have little incentive to invest large sums in artificial insemination in order to breed better cattle.
keep
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What perverse incentives still remain to keep people in institutions?
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Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.
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If the firm goes public, Goldman would lose an incentive that keeps its rising executives from leaving for other firms.
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With higher interest rates, people have an incentive to keep money in the bank, not in their pockets.
need
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He says he will but he needs the incentive to do it.
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Many were poisoned or trapped as crop raiders, and if anyone needed an incentive , high prices were paid for skins.
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You need to give yourself incentives and rewards, as well as receiving them from other people.
offer
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And they are offering tasty incentives to runners who answer their call.
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Schools now had to compete for funds, offering their achievements as incentive .
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Others may offer additional incentives for you to part with your money.
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Computer firms are expected to offer matches and other incentives to buy their equipment.
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Indeed, PageMart and PageNet last week offered incentives for EconoPage customers to switch to their paging networks.
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It should lead the international community in offering real incentives .
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Only by offering such incentives can a group begin to mobilize supporters.
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What happens to neighboring areas that can not offer the same incentives ?
provide
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Local NGOs Many donors provide financial incentives to local NGOs.
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Meantime, businesses increasingly are providing employee incentives to reduce traffic.
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The threat of personal liability provides directors with an incentive to comply with applicable standards of conduct.
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These high profits have a paradoxical effect: They provide a steady incentive for drug suppliers.
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This should provide you with the incentive to train harder and achieve even more.
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They provide another incentive to include skimmia in the garden.
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It provides perhaps little incentive for most youngsters in today's affluent society.
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In that case such penalties would surely provide enormous incentive .
reduce
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If more were financed privately then taxation could be reduced and incentives increased accordingly.
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In traditional ability-grouped classes the lower-group children get the least interesting materials, further reducing their incentive to learn.
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Asked whether Labour's tax plans would reduce incentives for managers and executives, 22 percent say they would work less hard.
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For the latter system greatly reduces the incentive to export and leads to a progressive worsening of the balance of payments.
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Comprehensive state welfare also induces dependency, reduces incentives to work, and blunts initiative and enterprise.
remove
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This, Mr Bates said, would remove the financial incentive for businesses to delay payment of bills.
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However, Mr Hurd's pronouncement yesterday removes that incentive , leaving the Labour move almost certain to fail.
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This would remove the incentive to marry as an escape from an intolerable environment.
save
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Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets.
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Its advantages are overwhelming: Mission-driven budgets give every employee an incentive to save money.
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Stronger incentives to save are, no doubt, a good idea.
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It would be less easy to avoid and it would be an incentive to save .
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But there's no incentive to save water and no relationship between how much you use and what you pay.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Low prices give the farmers little incentive .
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The government is offering special tax incentives to people wanting to start up small businesses.
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The new plan will provide strong incentives for young people to improve their skills.
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The school gives incentives such as more play time to kids who work hard.
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When prices are so low, farmers have little incentive to increase production.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Indiana has sometimes spent too much on tax incentives to lure companies inside its borders.
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Our fire departments have powerful incentives to keep things that way.
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Perhaps this led to a greater emphasis on the other economic incentive .
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Problems have also been experienced with providing cost-centre managers with sufficient incentives to manage resources economically, efficiently and effectively.
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Taxes are too high, investment incentives missing.
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That probably depends on what financial incentives the United States might provide.
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The granting of individual landownership rights improved incentives, and facilities for credit and investment improved.
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There is a clear incentive to move to larger countries.