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