A big question is how well policies will work when market incentives prove tempting.
If firms are tempted by tax incentives, they may simply shift jobs from other low-income workers.
They come from the United States and Britain — and, increasingly, from Russia, tempted by tax incentives that the Irish government put in place to stimulate the property market, according to Mr. Pritchard.
While Britain, Norway and Portugal are creating state-of-the-art electric infrastructures for E.V.'s and enticing urban commuters with time-saving driving privileges, buyers of electric and hybrid vehicles in other countries are tempted with monetary incentives like tax credits or rebates.
Not surprisingly, that incentive has proved too tempting for some law enforcement agencies to pass up, and has encouraged abuse and corruption.
It is tempting to attribute the diagnostic trends solely to the QOF incentive payments to GPs, mostly introduced in 2004 and operationalised by 2006.
Financial incentives may tempt Federer to lumber on.
But a $5,000 credit might have cut it by over three points, at least in the short run.Hiring incentives might tempt employers, but they will not help if workers have the wrong skills or are stuck in the wrong part of the country.
The Times has admitted it was duped into publishing a hoax exclusive about plans for a Qatar-based Dream Football League, offering huge financial incentives to tempt Manchester United and other top Premier League sides to join, in an episode it described as a "journalistic nightmare".
Twelve years later, Michigan had to offer $107 million in incentives to tempt General Motors to build new engines in Flint at a cost of $162,000 per new job, according to the same study.
