Even though it is possible for the same payment to be both deserved and an incentive, incentives and desert provide distinct rationales for income and should not be conflated (Lamont 1997).
Box 1 Definition of an incentive Incentives include financial (positive or negative) and non-financial tangible incentives or rewards.
Incentives, incentives, incentives.And Paul Krugman calls the GOP the "party of stupid".
Incentives Incentives drive human behaviour.
Bernard Weinstein of Southern Methodist University claims that what the oil industry gets are not subsidies, they are "incentives": "Incentives are another tool used by government to encourage domestic energy production, but these can hardly be described as handouts".
Patient financial incentives ("incentives") have been widely used to promote chlamydia screening uptake amongst 15-24 year olds in England, but there is scarce evidence of their effectiveness.
As a result, hospitals may face conflicting incentives: incentives to maintain or enhance the quality of hotel services on the one hand, and incentives to maintain activities that contribute to the quality of clinical care and health outcomes on the other.
On the other hand, if patients rely on their physician's recommendations in choosing hospitals [ 8], and to the degree that physicians can assess clinical quality, albeit imperfectly, hospitals are faced with counter incentives, incentives that would promote resource use in clinical activities rather than hotel services.
This creates a PR incentive and a financial incentive for action.
This creates a powerful incentive for coöperation — an incentive entirely missing from our system.
"Universities want to reward teaching, but the industry gives no incentive, or negative incentives, for focusing on teaching.
