Measurement framework
Four reporting dimensions
The current paper reports exposure level, technology channel, labour margin, and implementation dependency under a common measurement framework.
Methods
What the atlas measures, and what it does not.
The atlas is a measurement system for work activities, skills, country variation, products, and trade-facing technology channels. It is not a causal estimate of realized adoption, displacement, wages, or productivity.
Measurement pipeline
See the workflow in one place.
The site can show the measurement architecture more directly than the paper. Hover or click each step to see where AI-assisted labeling enters, where validation happens, and what gets carried into the public atlas.
Benchmark constructions
Matched context-free benchmark and GDP-weighted synthetic global
The comparison keeps the measurement framework fixed. What changes is the presence or absence of country context when the benchmark is constructed.
Task-skill structure
Many-to-many links are preserved
The atlas keeps validated many-to-many links between tasks and skills rather than forcing a thin one-to-one map before exposure is measured.
What the atlas does measure
- Technical exposure of tasks under a common framework
- Many-to-many links between tasks and skills
- Cross-country differences in task exposure
- Goods- and services-facing product/task role structure
- Trade-facing country-task mechanism patterns
What the atlas does not measure
- Realized adoption
- Worker displacement
- Wages or productivity effects
- Organizational redesign
- Causal policy or trade effects
Limitations
Keep the interpretation disciplined.
Country conditioning is still model-mediated rather than a direct observation of realized institutions. The goods and services layers have their own coverage boundaries, and the site repeats those coverage notes wherever the trade-facing layer appears.