All this suggests that policymakers could do a lot more to sharpen men's work incentives.
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There is no empirical evidence that this would hit investment or work incentives.
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It involves joining up policies as diverse as housing benefit, work incentives and rules for immigrants seeking political asylum.
This model of welfare tried to keep savings high and work incentives sharp.
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The office's new head, Florian Gerster, who starts work next week, has already suggested cutting unemployment benefits for older workers to sharpen work incentives.
Just as high marginal tax rates may dull work incentives, high saving requirements may make some people decide that working more just isn't worth it.
There were many great ideas, ideas as simple as eliminating paper pay stubs and as big as rethinking return to work incentives for those on disability.
He blames means tests for everything from encouraging fraud to destroying work incentives, and thinks they fail either to control public spending or to concentrate help on the poor.
The leaders are hoping for progress on issues like increased Internet access, "welfare to work" incentives for the long-term unemployed, cutting red tape, and progress towards a single EU financial market, which would mean cheaper borrowing for firms, better returns for savers and cheaper insurance policies.
One can no more assess the work of scientists without examining the incentives and value systems under which they operate than one can assess the work of mortgage bankers without looking at the incentives and value systems that led them to drive the economy into a ditch.
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In other words, the incentives work because the state spends and delivers public services efficiently.
For rudimentary mechanical work, financial incentives do produce better performance, but performance on higher order tasks actually declines as monetary incentives increase.
Strictly moral incentives work pretty well in small settings.
This puts the Administration in a further logical bind, as the policy is clearly grounded in the notion that monetary incentives work: make a desirable thing free, and people will demand more of it.
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Ministers say Universal Credit will increase incentives to work, reduce in-work poverty and simplify the system.
Much can also be done to increase the incentives to work, and to work longer.
R. 8 definitely changed the incentives for work, savings, and investment, but all in the wrong direction.
The report says childcare costs are also eroding incentives to work for those higher up the income scale.
But the meagre wages crimp disposable incomes and kill incentives to work harder.
The Universal Credit is intended to make the benefits and welfare system much simpler and improve incentives to work.
Free him from his debts and his incentives to work (legally) are restored.
Where a lone parent has just one pre-school child, the incentives to work longer hours are still "relatively low", the report claims.
It was only during the subsequent job-rich recovery that the effects of curbs on union power and sharper incentives to work materialised.
There are already plenty of incentives to work in the underground economy.
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Bottom line: any reform of the system should give people better incentives to work and pay taxes rather than encouraging them not to work.
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Above all, the party says, lower taxes will provide incentives to work, which will boost economic growth, fill the state's coffers and narrow the deficit.
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They know that if you want more economic growth than you are getting now, you have to change the incentives affecting work, savings, and investment.
The stated overall goal is to give people incentives to work.
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