We use data from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey to analyse how public attitudes towards trade have changed over time … in developed economies, and how these attitudes differ across groups in the population. Attitudes towards trade … larger increases in Chinese import competition. Perhaps surprisingly, given that barriers to trade appear to be on the …

emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower …-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological realignment in trade-exposed local labor markets that commences prior …, we find that trade exposed electoral districts simultaneously exhibit growing ideological polarization in some domains …-meaning expanding support for both strong-left and strong-right views-and pure rightward shifts in others. Specifically, trade …