Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
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.
Chancellor Schröder's August 2002 declaration that Germany would not participate in a US-led Iraq war, reaffirmed during the 2002 Bundestag election and through the March 2003 invasion period, anchored a distinctive German foreign-economic posture and avoided defence-spending escalation. The refusal cooled US bilateral relations, bolstered the Franco-German axis around the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and constrained the SPD-Greens fiscal envelope amid concurrent Agenda 2010 reforms.
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.