'underlying incentive' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it in a sentence to describe a motivation for a particular action that may not be immediately obvious. For example: "The decision to invest in the new project was driven by an underlying incentive to increase profitability."
And that's another illustration of the underlying incentive problem.
Rather than spending even more federal dollars policing private insurers in Medicare, why not remove the underlying incentive encouraging them to push these higher profit plans in the first place?
Finally, the underlying incentive behind the notion of competition is that low-performing providers would either improve or disappear, something that governments have often proved reluctant to see happen.
We discuss the underlying incentive problem from a new institutional economics perspective and suggest an approach to the design and implementation of operable energy agencies.
Noting the underlying incentive to keep costs low by outsourcing, she speculated, "I think some of these companies are surely displacing regular employees".
Collectively, our PIT data demonstrate strong formation of associative representations underlying incentive motivation and robust expression of stimulus-controlled reward-seeking behaviors in the C57BL/6J strain.
"You've got to devise a system that starts to change underlying incentives — the policy incentives — and allow a gradual change in the system over time".
They have been aided by a wealth of data and a fair understanding of the underlying incentives.
But they're largely irrelevant to its real policy purpose, which is to make structural changes to existing programs in the hopes of changing the underlying incentives that are driving spending growth and hampering economic expansion.
I believe these efforts on the underlying incentives in our systems are some of the most important work we're doing across the company.
But in Texas it is a felony to lobby the Legislature on a contingent-fee basis, because it can skew the incentives underlying public policy.
