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.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
National Rural Employment Guarantee Act enacted 7 September 2005 (renamed MGNREGA in 2009). Created statutory right to 100 days of unskilled manual wage labour per rural household per financial year, with unemployment allowance if work not provided within 15 days of demand. Work and wage records maintained via job cards; wages paid through bank/post-office accounts to reduce leakage. Phased rollout: 200 districts Feb 2006, 330 districts Apr 2007, all rural districts Apr 2008. Peak workdays ~2.8bn per year; active workers ~50m households. Largest workfare programme in the world by enrolment. Self-targeting via below-market minimum-wage level; Imbert & Papp (2015) documented general-equilibrium wage effects.
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.