What rise in structural unemployment due to changes in labour productivity?
A decline in productivity gains, since it is not fully offset by a related fall in real wages, leads to a rise in the structural unemployment rate. We estimate the link between productivity gains and the structural unemployment rate in the United States and the euro zone, and the recent trend in the structural unemployment rate. The decline in productivity gains has caused the structural unemployment rate to rise by 3.8 percentage points in the United States and 2.4 percentage points in the euro zone.