| ALMP | Active labour market programmes |
| ANF | Italian family allowance – Assegno per il Nucleo Familiare |
| CLA | Collective Labour Agreement |
| CPS | US Current Population Survey |
| DBA | Dutch Deregulation Labour Relations Assessment Law – Wet Deregulering Beoordeling Arbeidsrelatie |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| IAF | Swedish Unemployment Insurance Board |
| INPS | Italian Social Security Institute – Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale |
| IOAW | Dutch income provisions for older and partially disabled unemployed employees |
| IOAZ | Dutch benefit act for elderly self-employed people with a low income – Wet Inkomensvoorziening oudere en gedeeltelijk arbeidsongeschikte gewezen zelfstandigen |
| IOW | Dutch Act on Income Provisions for Older Unemployed – Wet Inkomensvoorziening Oudere Werklozen |
| ISFOL | Italian Institute for developing workers’ lifelong learning – Istituto per lo sviluppo della formazione professionale dei lavoratori |
| KSVG | German Artists’ Social Security Act – Künstlersozialversicherungsgesetz |
| LFS | Labour force survey |
| NASPI | Nuova assicurazione sociale per l'impiego – Italian unemployment benefit for employees |
| NDC | Italian notional defined-contribution public pension |
| PES | Public Employment Service |
| RSI | French social security scheme for self-employed workers – Régime Social des Indépendants |
| SBSE | Canadian Special Benefits for Self-employed Workers scheme |
| TFR | Italian form of severance pay that can be used to finance contributions to private pension funds – Trattamento di Fine Rapporto |
| UI | Unemployment insurance |
| UWV | Dutch Employee Insurance Agency |
| WAADI | Dutch law on the provision of employees by intermediaries – Wet Allocatie Arbeidskrachten door Intermediairs |
| WIA | Dutch Work and Income (Capacity for Work) Act |
| WW | Dutch Unemployment Insurance Act |
| WWZ | Dutch Work and Security Act – Wet Werk en Zekerheid |
| ZW | Dutch Sickness Benefits Act – ZiekteWet |
| ZW | Dutch sickness benefit – Ziektewet-uitkering |
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