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This is the citation layer for the project. It stores the papers, reports, and datasets the repo references, plus short repo-specific notes about how each source is used. It does not restate formulas from Methodology, schema details from Data, or release narratives from Reports.

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Active core (16 entries)

Directly informs the live structural score, its context, or its official validation layer.

Anthropic Economic Index: New building blocks for understanding AI use

report 2026

Anthropic · Anthropic

Adds observed AI-usage evidence to the exposure stack and motivates the repo's task-primitives sidecar.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Observed Claude usage is not a full labour-market census and is still a platform-specific measure.

Repo use: Active live source in the audited exposure ensemble and a major input to the future task-native direction.

exposuretasksmeasurement
Used for: observed occupation exposure source · usage gap framing · task evidence design

How Will AI-Driven Automation Actually Affect Jobs?

article 2026

Alex Imas, Vasudha Shukla · Ghosts of Electricity (Substack)

Argues exposure alone cannot predict displacement: output-demand price elasticity (elastic demand can expand hiring as AI cuts costs) and job dimensionality (low-task jobs are easier to automate fully) are the missing variables.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Commentary rather than peer-reviewed estimation; proposes collecting new price/quantity data rather than a ready-made occupation-level measure.

Repo use: Motivates the V7 demand-persistence proxy. The proxy measures recent labour-demand persistence (momentum, vacancies, scarcity), not output-price elasticity, and does not capture dimensionality — it is a partial response to this critique, not a resolution.

forecastmeasurementcontext
Used for: demand-persistence proxy motivation · exposure-index critique framing

Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

report 2026

Maxim Massenkoff, Peter McCrory · Anthropic

Separates theoretical capability from observed exposure and emphasizes that early labour effects remain limited.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Uses US outcome data and a platform-linked usage measure, so it still needs Singapore-specific interpretation.

Repo use: Primary candidate reference for promoting the shadow model beyond readiness-only governance.

tasksvalidationforecast
Used for: observed exposure framing · task-native shadow model · near-term impact interpretation

AI, Productivity, and Work Quality

working paper 2025

Erica Dillon, et al. · NBER

Adds evidence that AI can change both output quantity and work quality, reinforcing the need for occupation-specific augmentation priors.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Experimental and workflow-specific evidence still needs careful translation into occupation-level scoring.

Repo use: Useful as a V5.1 calibration reference rather than as a direct V4.x score ingredient.

productivityaugmentation
Used for: augmentation calibration priors · work-quality tradeoff framing
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w33795

Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market

working paper 2025

Menaka Hampole, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Lawrence D.W. Schmidt, Bryan Seegmiller · NBER

Shows that mean exposure and concentration of exposure in a few tasks can have different labour-demand implications.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: The repo uses a simplified concentration buffer rather than the paper's full firm-task empirical setting; the buffer magnitude (lambda = 0.20) is heuristic, not estimated from the paper's coefficients.

Repo use: Primary scientific justification for the live V7 task-concentration exposure buffer (concentration offsets labour-demand losses via within-job task reallocation).

tasksvalidationmeasurement
Used for: task concentration buffer · task-native demand interpretation
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w33509

Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure

report 2025

ILO · International Labour Organization

Adds a recent global occupational exposure measure aligned to international occupation codes.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Still a global exposure measure rather than a Singapore outcome model.

Repo use: Included because its ISCO alignment improves crosswalk robustness for the ensemble.

exposure
Used for: ISCO-aligned exposure source

Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects

working paper 2025

Anders Humlum, Emilie Vestergaard · NBER

Finds small early labour-market effects from chatbot adoption despite meaningful task restructuring, supporting conservative near-term risk shrinkage.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: The study is Denmark-specific and examines early effects; longer-run displacement remains unresolved.

Repo use: Supports the repo's choice to keep structural risk separate from near-term or realised-risk interpretations.

forecastvalidation
Used for: near-term realised-risk shrinkage
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w33777

Navigating the Jagged Technological Frontier

working paper 2025

Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, et al. · NBER

Highlights that AI gains are jagged across tasks and expertise levels rather than smooth across a whole occupation.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Provides strong augmentation evidence but still within constrained experimental settings.

Repo use: Supports the repo direction of modelling augmentation as its own construct rather than as a mirror image of automation.

productivityaugmentation
Used for: augmentation heterogeneity · workflow calibration
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w33641

The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI

working paper 2025

Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, David J. Deming · NBER

Documents that workplace generative-AI adoption is fast, supporting a separate adoption layer in forecast models.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Adoption speed alone does not identify realised labour displacement or productivity effects.

Repo use: Used to justify separating structural pressure from near-term realised-risk proxies.

forecastmeasurement
Used for: near-term adoption calibration
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w32966

Exposure to Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Mobility: A Cross-country Analysis

working paper 2024

IMF staff · IMF Working Paper

Suggests that mobility responses to AI pressure follow structured pathways rather than generic occupational distance rules.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Cross-country evidence informs the transition design, but the repo still needs a Singapore-specific mobility dataset.

Repo use: Guides the schema for observed transition priors and future ranking logic in the transition layer.

mobility
Used for: future empirical transition model

Generative AI at Work

working paper 2023

Erik Brynjolfsson, Danielle Li, Lindsey Raymond · NBER

Shows large heterogeneous productivity effects from AI assistance in a specific workflow, supporting separate augmentation modelling.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: The effect size is workflow-specific and should not be generalized into a universal augmentation constant.

Repo use: Candidate reference for replacing a single structural augmentation heuristic with workflow-aware priors.

productivityaugmentation
Used for: augmentation calibration priors
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w31161

GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models

article 2023

Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, Daniel Rock · OpenAI

Frames LLM exposure around task feasibility and time-saving potential rather than broad automation narratives.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: The paper is early and US-oriented, and it does not by itself provide Singapore labour-market calibration.

Repo use: Used as a reference for the repo's future task-native model direction, not as a direct live source key.

exposuretasks
Used for: LLM-specific task exposure framing · candidate V5 task-native design

GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models

paper 2023

Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin, Daniel Rock · arXiv / OpenAI

Provides the GPT-oriented exposure source used as one leg of the live exposure ensemble.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Like other exposure indices, it measures capability overlap rather than realised displacement.

Repo use: Kept in the live ensemble because it adds an LLM-specific construct not covered by AIOE alone.

exposure
Used for: LLM exposure source

Labor Market Exposure to AI: Cross-country Differences and Distributional Implications

working paper 2023

Carolina Pizzinelli, et al. · IMF Working Paper

Provides the complementarity framework that the repo operationalises as the human bottleneck layer.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Designed as a broad labour-exposure framing rather than a Singapore occupation-level calibrated outcome model.

Repo use: Directly tied to the theta-based bottleneck implementation in the current scorer.

complementarityexposure
Used for: human bottleneck layer · complementarity framing

Occupational, industry, and geographic exposure to artificial intelligence: A novel dataset and its potential uses

paper 2021

Edward Felten, Manav Raj, Robert Seamans · Strategic Management Journal

Provides the published AIOE occupation exposure dataset used as a baseline source in the ensemble.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Measures theoretical exposure rather than realised AI use or job outcomes.

Repo use: Tied directly to the live AIOE source key and still used in the canonical exposure ensemble.

exposure
Used for: AIOE exposure source · occupation-level exposure baseline

A Method to Link Advances in Artificial Intelligence to Occupational Abilities

paper 2018

Edward Felten, Manav Raj, Robert Seamans · AEA Papers and Proceedings

Introduces the task-ability linkage approach that underpins modern AI-exposure measurement.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Provides the conceptual bridge from AI capabilities to work content, but not current observed usage or Singapore-specific outcomes.

Repo use: Referenced as the foundational exposure framework behind later AIOE-style occupation measures.

exposuretasks
Used for: task-to-occupation exposure framing · methodology background
Open source → DOI 10.1257/pandp.20181021
Validation (2 entries)

Used to cross-check the live score rather than to generate it.

Impact of AI on Singapore’s Labor Market

working paper 2024

Shujaat Khan · IMF Selected Issues Paper SIP/2024/040

IMF Singapore-specific estimates: ~77% of Singapore workers are highly exposed to AI (vs ~60% advanced-economy / ~40% emerging-market averages), split roughly evenly between high- and low-complementarity exposure.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Aggregate exposure/complementarity shares at the economy level, not occupation-by-occupation scores; uses the IMF exposure framework rather than this repo’s 4-source ensemble.

Repo use: The most directly relevant external benchmark for a Singapore AI-exposure product. Not yet used for formal calibration; flagged as a convergent-validity target more relevant than US BLS.

exposurecomplementaritycontext
Used for: Singapore-specific exposure benchmark · external convergent validation target

US BLS Employment Projections 2024-2034

dataset 2024

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Provides the external benchmark used for convergent validation and for the BLS-weighted proxy employment field.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: This is US evidence and should not be interpreted as Singapore occupation outcome truth.

Repo use: Lives in the repo as both a validation benchmark and a clearly labeled external proxy.

validationmeasurement
Used for: cross-country convergent validation · employment proxy wage-pool basis
Next horizon (2 entries)

Research not yet absorbed into the live model and reserved for future post-V7 calibration work.

Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models

report 2026

METR · METR

Tracks the current task-duration horizons of frontier models and offers a capability input for scenario calibration.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: The benchmark is model-centric and software-task heavy, so it is not a direct occupation impact measure.

Repo use: Useful for the forecast layer, not for the core structural score.

forecastmeasurement
Used for: capability-horizon calibration

Making AI Count: The Next Measurement Frontier

working paper 2025

Diane Coyle, John Lourenze S. Poquiz · NBER

Argues that AI measurement should become more granular, task-based, and outcome-focused than current official statistics.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: This is a measurement agenda rather than an occupation-scoring formula.

Repo use: Best reference for the repo's longer-run shift from heuristic confidence toward richer uncertainty and task-native measurement.

measurementuncertainty
Used for: measurement philosophy · future uncertainty design
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w34330
Supporting context (14 entries)

Reference datasets and methodology inputs used for explanation, task matching, or supporting surfaces.

How (un)Stable Are LLM Occupational Exposure Scores? Evidence from Multi-Model Replication

working paper 2026

Michelle Yin, Hoa Vu, Claudia Persico · NBER Working Paper 35110

Replicating the Eloundou-style exposure rubric with three frontier LLMs yields a 3.6-fold divergence in mean exposure and inter-model agreement as low as 57%; downstream employment estimates vary 2.4x and can flip sign by annotating model.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Measures annotator instability, not which annotation is correct; ensemble averaging across independent measures dilutes but does not remove the error.

Repo use: Disclosed in Known Limitations: affects the Eloundou and ILO components of the exposure ensemble.

measurementexposure
Used for: exposure measurement-instability disclosure
Open source → DOI 10.3386/w35110

O*NET Database 30.2

dataset 2026

O*NET Resource Center · O*NET / U.S. Department of Labor

Provides the task statements, technology skills, and job-zone context used for explanation and task matching.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: O*NET is US-based and enters the Singapore product mainly as explanatory or crosswalk context.

Repo use: Not a direct structural-score input, but essential for the supporting task layer and future task-native scoring.

taskscontextmeasurement
Used for: task context · technology-skill context · job-zone education proxy · task-primitives matching

Who Uses AI? Platform Selection and the Measurement of Occupational AI Exposure

working paper 2026

Michelle Yin, Burhan Ogut · arXiv 2605.21743

Platform-log exposure measures conflate task-level AI applicability with the occupational composition of platform users; reweighting to BLS employment shares attenuates post-ChatGPT employment estimates by 42-93%, and swapping platforms changes coefficients 1.9x.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: US workforce reweighting; the direction of bias for Singapore depends on local adoption composition, which is not measured at occupation level.

Repo use: Disclosed in Known Limitations: affects the Anthropic observed-usage component of the exposure ensemble.

measurementexposure
Used for: platform-selection bias disclosure

BLS Skills Data

dataset 2025

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Official 17-skill summary for occupations, built on O*NET inputs and BLS projections occupations.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: It is a summarized skills view, not a direct task-by-task automation score.

Repo use: Best public structured skill overlay for the US country layer.

tasksmeasurementcontext
Used for: US skills context · task explanation · occupation comparison

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence

working paper 2025

Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, Ruyu Chen · Stanford Digital Economy Lab

ADP payroll microdata: 13% (revised ~16% by Oct 2025) relative employment decline for ages 22-25 in the most AI-exposed occupations, concentrated where usage is automative; adjustment runs through reduced hiring of entrants, not layoffs of incumbents.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: US payroll data; the Feb 2026 update concedes effects are significant only from 2024 under the broadest macro controls. Entry-margin evidence, not occupation-level displacement totals.

Repo use: Primary citation for the seniority modifiers and for the hiring-margin limitation: entrant-facing and incumbent-facing risk are different objects.

validationcontext
Used for: seniority modifier grounding · hiring-margin displacement framing

CPS Demographics by Occupation

dataset 2025

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupation-linked demographic and labor-force context drawn from the Current Population Survey.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Occupation/industry classification changes reduce perfect longitudinal comparability.

Repo use: Useful for showing who is exposed and for planning transition context, not for changing the structural pressure score.

measurementcontextvalidation
Used for: US worker profile · demographic transition context · equity analysis

How AI is transforming work at Anthropic

report 2025

Anthropic · Anthropic

Shows how AI changes engineering and research workflows inside Anthropic, adding a concrete adoption case study.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Internal workplace evidence is highly specific to Anthropic and should not be generalized into a country labour market without adjustment.

Repo use: Useful as a contextual adoption case study and a reminder that augmentation can change task mix, learning speed, and workflow design.

tasksproductivityaugmentationcontext
Used for: software-work case study · observed adoption context · learning and iteration framing

Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)

dataset 2025

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Official occupation-level wage and employment statistics for the United States.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: OEWS is US-specific and must not be interpreted as a global wage distribution.

Repo use: Best public source for the US wage layer and the richest local wage context currently available.

measurementcontextvalidation
Used for: US wage context · US wage calibration · occupation-level earnings narratives

Occupational Outlook Handbook / Occupation Finder

report 2025

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Official occupation profiles used for narrative, education, and work-environment context.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Designed for career guidance rather than AI-risk scoring.

Repo use: Adds the human-readable occupation narrative layer for the US market.

contextforecast
Used for: US narrative context · occupation descriptions · work environment copy

Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS)

dataset 2025

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Official occupation requirements survey covering the physical, cognitive, and preparation demands of work.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: ORS is not a labour-market outcome series; it is a requirements survey used for bottleneck and friction context.

Repo use: The best current official analogue for transition friction and human-bottleneck validation in the US layer.

measurementcontextvalidation
Used for: US bottleneck context · physical and cognitive demand overlay · transition friction calibration

New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018

paper 2024

David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons, Bryan Seegmiller · Quarterly Journal of Economics 139(3)

60% of 2018 US employment is in job titles that did not exist in 1940; new work emerges disproportionately in occupations exposed to augmenting rather than automating innovations.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Historical US evidence; no AI-era occupation-level reinstatement rate yet exists that could serve as a score input.

Repo use: The canonical quantified evidence for why displacement-only scores overstate long-run risk; cited in the central limitation.

taskscontext
Used for: reinstatement-channel acknowledgment
Open source → DOI 10.1093/qje/qjae008

Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data

paper 2022

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Wojciech Hardy, Yang Du, Saier Wu · World Bank Economic Review 36(3)

Worker-survey evidence across 46 countries: task content differs substantially across countries within the same occupation, so US O*NET-based task measures misstate task content abroad.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Singapore is not in the PIAAC/STEP samples, so the bias cannot be directly corrected; high-income economies show smaller divergence from US task content.

Repo use: The canonical citation for the SSOC-ISCO-SOC-O*NET crosswalk caveat; motivates benchmarking against Singapore-native task data (SkillsFuture Skills Framework).

measurementtasks
Used for: crosswalk limitation citation
Open source → DOI 10.1093/wber/lhac005

Occupational mobility and automation: a data-driven network model

paper 2021

R. Maria del Rio-Chanona, Penny Mealy, Mariano Beguerisse-Diaz, Francois Lafond, J. Doyne Farmer · Journal of the Royal Society Interface 18(174)

Network model on empirical occupational transitions: whether an automation shock produces unemployment or smooth reallocation depends on the topology of the transition network around an occupation, not its exposure alone.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: US transition-network data; Singapore-specific mobility networks are not yet measured, so the repo applies the insight via its structural transition-capacity scores.

Repo use: Grounds the high-risk x few-exits quadrant surfacing (rankings and occupation pages): escape-route quality, not pressure alone, shapes outcomes.

mobilitycontext
Used for: risk x transition-capacity quadrant framing
Open source → DOI 10.1098/rsif.2020.0898

What Works? A Meta-Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations

paper 2018

David Card, Jochen Kluve, Andrea Weber · Journal of the European Economic Association 16(3)

Meta-analysis of 200+ active labour market programme evaluations: average training impacts are close to zero in the short run and only modestly positive 2-3 years post-programme.

Limitations, repo use, and domains

Limitations: Pre-AI-era programmes, mostly Europe/US; Singapore schemes (SkillsFuture, SCTP, CCP) have published only selection-biased administrative outcomes, no causal evaluation.

Repo use: Grounds the caveat that transition-capacity scores measure structural skill adjacency, not evidence that retraining works.

mobilitycontext
Used for: transition-capacity framing caveat
Open source → DOI 10.1093/jeea/jvx028