Overeducation and R&D: Theoretical Aspects and Empirical Evidence
将研发企业引入匹配模型，研究研发活动对过度教育的影响，并利用意大利企业研发税收抵免政策评估其对博士过度教育概率的作用。
This work introduces R&D firms to a matching model to investigate their effect on overeducation. Moreover, we have enriched the empirical literature on the relationship between overeducation and R&D by evaluating whether the introduction of a tax credit to the R&D expenditures of Italian firms affected the PhDs’ probability of being overeducated. Our results first highlight that overeducation may be consistent with a share of graduate individuals who may be either lower (tightness dominance scenario) or higher (composition dominance scenario) than that optimally required by a social planner. Second, our model shows that the R&D incentives may decrease the likelihood of mismatches.