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Productivity Research and Program Development
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The Division of Productivity Research and Program Development (DPRPD) works on strengthening and improving Bureau productivity measures and on understanding the sources and effects of productivity and technical change. The Division’s economists work on clarifying input and output concepts for productivity measures, using methods from microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, labor economics, industrial organization, econometrics, and statistics. Staff time is devoted partly to individual, long-term research on theoretical and empirical topics and writing working papers and publications.
The Division’s researchers help develop new methods and productivity statistics. Division staff members helped develop more timely measures of multifactor productivity and measures of the effect of labor composition and research and development (R&D) on productivity growth. DPRPD researchers also helped develop new productivity measures in construction industries and the education sector.