wage incentive

noun

1. additional wage payments intended to stimulate improved work performance

Example Sentences

The DWP said the way Mr Byrne had calculated the figure, by counting unused wage incentive payments as Jobseeker's allowance, was "ludicrous", as not all young people on the scheme needed such payments.

From BBC

He formulated, as a business and industry doctrine, that a definite relation between the expenditure of labor energy and the labor reward could be established; that the wage incentive, if applied to labor in relation to energy expended, would yield, or might be expected to yield increased returns.

From Project Gutenberg

A resourceful manager in one of the most intelligently managed plants in the United States told me that women were less susceptible than men to the wage incentive.

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It is in the nature of the case impossible to increase the wage incentive indefinitely.

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In other words the wage incentive is like a virus injection.

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