Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
The Insurance Act for Salaried Employees (Versicherungsgesetz fuer Angestellte) created a distinct compulsory insurance scheme for white-collar employees, extending the imperial welfare architecture beyond manual workers and recognising salaried staff as a separate protected status group. The law broadened old-age and disability income security inside the contributory Bismarckian model and helped normalise social insurance as a routine feature of German industrial society before the First World War.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.