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The phrase "a disincentive effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the negative impact or deterrent that a particular action or policy may have on behavior or decision-making.
Example: "The new tax policy has created a disincentive effect for small businesses, discouraging them from expanding."
Alternatives: "a deterrent effect" or "a negative impact".
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It does have a disincentive effect, though, and it's a price just not worth paying".
With this change there came a growing awareness that 90% personal income taxation had a disincentive effect.
The results suggest that first pillar crop subsidies and pillar two environmental programs generate a disincentive effect on productivity, whilst in general, the CAP promotes technical efficiency convergence within Europe.
And people who are well fed and fall ill less often therefore work more, so there's a countervailing positive effect on labor supply that offsets whatever negative effect might be induced by creating a disincentive effect, by encouraging people to take time off work because they know they're getting income.
If the rich are going to continue to get richer in low-tax countries and high-tax countries alike, then it must mean that high tax rates have far less of a disincentive effect on the rich than conservatives like Professor Meltzer continually proclaim.
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Standard search theory predicts a disincentive effects of benefits.
Since the late 1980s, these policies have been reversed and there should no longer be any disincentive effect on agriculture.
They exploit a discontinuity in the determination process to estimate the disincentive effect for a subgroup of applicants whose determination is based on vocational factors3.
Third, however, we find evidence of statistically significant, and not inconsiderable, stigma/ transaction/ information costs which implies that in-work transfers are not as effective at countering the disincentive effect of out-of-work transfers, or at countering poverty amongst the working poor, as they might otherwise be.
The disincentive effect of withdrawing tax credits for an EU worker on the minimum wage in the UK but capable of earning the average wage in their home country would force Polish workers to take a 22% pay cut, while a Bulgarian would only earn a little more.
The other disincentive affect people are concerned about is the disincentive effect for recipient governments.
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