Such incentives include wellness programs, help with smoking cessation and weight loss, vaccinations and cancer screenings.
Experience with such incentives shows that they do have powerful effects in controlling costs.
Such incentives do indeed boost participation, but they also have led to charges that employers are discriminating against the unhealthy.
Such incentives had previously helped boost sales of its popular hybrid models.
But on this emotive issue, such incentives will have a limited effect.
After many years, however, such incentives become sacred cows and any suggestion that they be removed from the Code is met with stiff opposition.
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By forcing the carriers to pool their operations and offer a common price for the full journey, such incentives disappear, and the ticket costs less as a result.
The pre-budget report was therefore replete with such incentives.
Put simply, in the absence of such incentives, the risk-averse funding that banks thrive on wouldn't be available to allow banks to create sprawling credit portfolios impossible for regulators or investors in the marketplace to assess.
Such state incentives are widespread, and often substantial, but they don't do much to attract jobs.
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Yet the effectiveness of such monetary incentives to fight wrongdoing remains unclear.
In malls across America, such shopping incentives have long been the norm.
"The use of rewards is on the rise, " says Alexandra Natapoff, a Loyola Law School professor in Los Angeles who has studied the use of such financial incentives.
Government must act the part, as it has in the United States through necessary laws such as bankruptcy and patent rights, protections through courts, incentives such as tax abatements and enabling bodies such as the Small Business Administration.
Small businesses would be wise to take advantage of programs and incentives such as these.
Its Green Shipping Initiative offer incentives such as reduced port fees for ships in return for using low-sulfur fuel.
The second group includes investment and savings incentives such as low rates for capital gains and preferences for contributions to retirement accounts.
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Those ever popular short-term performance incentives such as spot bonuses tend to be just that, short-term, and do little to increase engagement or long-term performance.
Sales promotion often involves incentives such as loyalty cards, vouchers for money off your shopping in coming weeks or two for the price of one etc.
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Several car makers in India have in recent months started to offer incentives such as price rebates, free insurance, accessories and vehicle-exchange bonuses to attract buyers.
Instead, we should explore less unpleasant ways to cut energy use though such things as incentives for decentralizing work, promoting home-based labor, more tree planning and effective insulation.
Several car makers in India, including Maruti, have in recent months started to offer customer incentives such as price rebates, free insurance, accessories and vehicle-exchange bonuses to attract buyers.
Almost all of India's car makers are offering either discounts or incentives such as free insurance, vehicle exchange bonuses and car accessories to drive up sales in a dull market.
Perhaps of even greater importance, Microsoft also requires all outside vendors to read and comply with the Microsoft Vendor Code of Conduct, which also prohibits incentives such as kickbacks or bribes.
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Ford is also trying to drive car sales by offering competitive pricing and incentives such as cash rebates and zero-percent financing to win over customers from other competitors such as Toyota.
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They want us to believe they alone are immune from the power of financial incentives such as lucrative consulting engagements that overshadow the fees for their public duty as the auditor.
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At the start of each session, before evaluating the applications, participants were assigned to one of the aforementioned incentive schemes, such that some incentives came with bigger rewards or penalties than others.
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