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Alternative measures of supervisory employee hours and productivity growth
Lucy P. Eldridge
Economist,
Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Marilyn E. Manser
Associate Commissioner, Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Phyllis Flohr Otto
Economist,
Office of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
An evaluation of new estimates of nonproduction and supervisory employee hours finds that the procedure currently used by BLS to estimate nonproduction and supervisory employee hours for the major sector productivity statistics does not misstate past productivity trends, but does undercount the number of hours worked.
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