Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote … institutional channel for the political effects of trade shocks: the weakening of labor unions. We provide support for this … political parties with historical links to unions. Furthermore, the impact of the trade liberalization on the vote share of …