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.
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.