0 something that makes people not want to do something or not work hard: --
1 something that makes a person or organization less willing to do something: --
create/provide a disincentive Prices send signals to producers telling them what to supply, while taxes create disincentives.
a disincentive to doing sth Working on a fixed-fee basis is a disincentive to agreeing to act for certain clients.
a disincentive (for sb) to do sth The tax on large pensions could be a disincentive to save for retirement.
serve as/act as a disincentive High severance costs can act as a disincentive to hire new workers.
A culture of corruption is a disincentive to investment and trade.
Recent reforms have addressed this disincentive to work, even though it is too early to assess its effects on labor supply.
The enormity of the consequences ensured that even a small chance of death was a major disincentive to further involvement.
In current procedureoriented billing and payment coding systems, there are financial disincentives to talking with patients.
Electoral rules are thought to influence political attitudes and behaviour by offering incentives or disincentives to vote.
Policy-makers need to consider how to remove this disincentive to repartnering, which is inherent in any means-tested benefits system based on household income.
Yet, as there is for mental health benefits (5), adverse selection may create a disincentive for plans to provide state-of-the-art consumer health information.
In other words, the increased capacity of the resources to sustain populations works as a disincentive to migrate.
To highlight the effect of disincentives, they play two games that are identical except that one allows employers to punish workers for shirking.
