Acronyms and abbreviations

AD

Ammortizzatori sociali in deroga (criteria for wage supplementation)

ALMP

Active labour market policy

ANPAL

Agenzia Nazionale per le Politiche Attive del Lavoro National Agency for Active Labour Market Policies

ASDI

Assegno Sociale di Disoccupazione (unemployment benefit)

ASL

Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro (a work-based learning program)

ASPI

Assicurazione Sociale per l’Impiego (unemployment benefit)

BIBB

Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (in Germany)

CIGO

Cassa Integrazione Guadagni Ordinaria (wage supplementation)

CIGS

Cassa Integrazione Guadagni Straordinaria (wage supplementation)

CIMR

Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management Research (in the UK)

CPI

Centro per l’Impiego Public local employment office

CREST

Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (in France)

CV

Curriculum Vitae

DID

Dichiarazione di immediata disponibilità Jobseekers declaring their availability to work

DIS-COLL

Disoccupazione collaborator (unemployment benefit)

DWP

Department of Work and Pensions (in the UK)

EC

European Commission

EGF

European Globalisation Adjustment Fund

ESF

European Social Fund

EU

European Union

EUR

Euro

EU-SILC

European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions

EULFS

European Union Labour Force Survey

FY

Fiscal year

GDP

Gross domestic product

HoPES

Heads of Public Employment Services (in the EU)

I4.0

Industria 4.0

IAB

Institute for Employment Research (in Germany)

IDB

Inter-American Development Bank

INAIL

Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work

INAPP

National Institute for Public Policy Analysis

INDIRE

National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research

INPS

Istituto Nazionale Previdenza Sociale National Institute of Social Welfare

ISFOL

Institute for the Development of Workers' Professional Training

ISTAT

Italian National Institute of Statistics

I.Stat

Database of the Italian National Institute of Statistics

ICT

Information and communication technology

IT

Information technology

IZA

Institute of Labor Economics (in Germany)

JSCI

Job Seeker Classification Instrument (in Australia)

LF

Labour force

LFS

Labour Force Statistics

LMP

Labour market policy

LTU

Long-term unemployment

Mini-ASPI

Mini-Assicurazione Sociale per l’Impiego (unemployment benefit)

NASPI

Nuova Assicurazione Sociale per l’Impiego (unemployment benefit)

NBER

National Bureau of Economic Research (in the United States of America)

NCES

National Center for Education Statistics (in the United States of America)

NEET

Neither in employment, nor in education or training

PARES

Partnership between Employment Services (in the EU)

PES

Public employment service

PIAAC

OECD Survey of Adult Skills

PLMP

Passive labour market policy

PPP

Purchasing power parity

R&D

Research and development

REI

Reddito di Inclusione “Inclusion Income” (unemployment benefit)

ROME

Répertoire Opérationnel des Métiers et des Emplois (French classification of occupations)

SEPE

Spanish State Public Employment Service

SIA

Sostegno all’Inclusione Attiva (unemployment benefit)

SIU

An integrated single IT system of active labour market policies

SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises

STAR

Danish Agency for Labour Market and Recruitment

SVIMEZ

Associazione per lo sviluppo dell'industria nel Mezzogiorno

TrEffeR

A tool to evaluate ALMP impact in the German PES

U

Unemployment

UK

United Kingdom

USD

United States dollars

VDAB

Public employment service in Flanders, Belgium

WAPES

World Association of Public Employment Services

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