DPRPD OverviewThe Division of Productivity Research and Program Development works on strengthening and improving Bureau productivity measures and on understanding the sources and effects of productivity and technical change. The Division works on clarifying input and output concepts, using methods from microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, labor economics, industrial organization, econometrics, and statistics. A large portion of staff time is devoted to individual, long term research on theoretical and empirical topics. The Division also supports the other productivity programs. For example, staff members have recently worked with analysts from the Division of Major Sector Productivity to develop more timely measures of multifactor productivity and to determine the effect of labor composition and R&D on productivity growth. Current research includes:
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