incentive

• Employee incentives

• Incentives

• Tax incentives

• Revitalizing Education Through a Student Incentive Structure

Much has been written about the plight of secondary and higher education in the U.S., and a plethora of reform proposals have been offered. Unlike many of the suggested reforms that focus on top-down administrative solutions to the education spiral, the model presented here offers a bottoms-up approach based on student incentives. Further, salient features of the revitalization model developed here are simplicity, maintenance of institutional sovereignty, and the absence of mandated changes in educational policies and procedures. A vital component of the model is the development of an index reflecting overall high school academic achievement. The index provides the basis for college and university financial aid reward structures. A financial aid structure offering greater monetary rewar...

• Academy of Educational Leadership Journal
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 2, April 2010

• To Consolidate or Not to Consolidate, That Is the Question: Optimal School Size and Teacher Incentive Contracts

Given the realities of ever-tightening public budgets and the directives inherent in the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) school districts have been required to do more (with more direct accountability) with less (funding) than ever before. These two forces are, of course, conflicting. One approach to the funding dilemma has districts consolidating schools in order to pool enrollment and resources, in an attempt to reduce pressure to increase class size that would likely reduce student achievement. Another is to create incentive contracts for teachers so that student achievement would directly affect teacher salary. We introduce monitoring technology into an agency-based model of teacher incentive contracting to determine optimal school size, bringing both sides of this debate together.

• Academy of Educational Leadership Journal
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 3, July 2010

• Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program-Stage 2

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 13698, March 07, 2012
• Proposed rules
• Health and Human Services Department

• The Incentive Gamble

Panasonic Corp. of North America has yet to say whether it will take a $102.4 million tax break to move from Secaucus to a new headquarters in Newark. But whatever the company's decision, the controversial award -- fiercely opposed by Secaucus officials and Panasonic's current landlord, Hartz Mountain Industries -- has underscored the growing importance of the corporate incentive program under which the award was made.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 14, 2011

• Incentive-robust financial reform.

"Will Rogers, commenting on the Depression, famously quipped: "If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?" Rogers's rhetorical quest...

• The Cato Journal
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 3, September 2011

• Teacher Incentive Fund

• FR, May 21, 2010
• Rules
• Education Department

• Ownership Structure and Golden Parachutes: Evidence of Credible Commitment or Incentive Alignment?

Using a sample of S & P 500 firms, we find that golden parachutes are associated with concentrated external ownership, less concentrated internal ownership, and non-Delaware incorporation. We find little support that concentrated external owners use golden parachutes as credible commitment devices. The general multivariate results support the incentive alignment hypothesis, and reaffirm the view that golden parachutes are a mechanism used to align managerial and shareholder interests when there is a separation between ownership and control.

• Journal of Economics and Finance
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 3, October 2007

• Medicare Program; End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System and Quality Incentive Program; Ambulance Fee Schedule; Durable Medical Equipment; and Competitive Acquisition of Certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies

This final rule updates and makes certain revisions to the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) prospective payment system (PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2012. We are also finalizing the interim final rule with comment period published on April 6, 2011, regarding the transition budget-neutrality adjustment under the ESRD PPS,. This final rule also sets forth requirements for the ESRD quality incentive program (QIP) for payment years (PYs) 2013 and 2014. In addition, this final rule revises the ambulance fee schedule regulations to conform to statutory changes. This final rule also revises the definition of durable medical equipment (DME) by adding a 3-year minimum lifetime requirement (MLR) that must be met by an item or device in order to be considered durable for the purpose of classifying th...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 70228, November 10, 2011
• Rules and Regulations
• Health and Human Services Department

• 5 CFR 576.103 - Offering Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments to employees.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 5: Administrative Personnel

• Great Lakes Steamship Repower Incentive Program

EPA is proposing to simplify an existing provision in our marine diesel engine program that is intended to encourage owners of Great Lakes steamships to repower those steamships with cleaner marine diesel engines. The simplified program would automatically permit the use of residual fuel, through December 31, 2025, in a steamship if it has been repowered with a certified Tier 2 or later marine diesel engine, provided the steamship was operated exclusively on the Great Lakes and was in service on October 30, 2009. Steamships are powered by old, inefficient steam boilers. Voluntary replacement of these boilers with modern fuel-efficient marine diesel engines would result in reductions of particulate matter and sulfur oxides, even while the replacement diesel engines are operated on higher...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 2497, January 18, 2012
• Proposed rules
• Environmental Protection Agency