"You have to provide incentives for employees to work hard. And yes,the pay structure for Wall Street vs.the rest of America looks a bit out of wack.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

The economy needs help. But rather than stimulating the economy by providing an improved incentives to work and invest, we have been devoting trillions of dollars in taxpayer money to expanding and creating permanent long-term government spending programs and income-redistribution mechanisms,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

All this suggests that policymakers could do a lot more to sharpen men's work incentives.

ECONOMIST: America's jobless men: Decline of the working man | The

There is no empirical evidence that this would hit investment or work incentives.

FORBES: I Must Apologise For One Of My Fellow Englishmen: Simon Tilford In The New York Times

It involves joining up policies as diverse as housing benefit, work incentives and rules for immigrants seeking political asylum.

ECONOMIST: Housing estates