| 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 |