According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product-market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product-market conditions...

Technology growth is estimated on data for Swedish two-digit manufacturing industries. I apply and evaluate two different approaches to control for varying factor utilization developed by Basu and Kimball (1997) and Burnside, Eichenbaum and Rebelo (1995). I also propose a generalization of the...