| ALMP |
Active Labour Market Policy |
|
|
| BHPS |
British Household Panel Survey |
|
|
| CCI |
Cultural and Creative Industry |
| CEE |
Central and Eastern Europe |
| CSRs |
Country Specific Recommendations |
| CVET: |
Continuous Vocational Education and Training |
|
|
| DG |
Directorate General |
| DG ECFIN |
Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs |
| DG EMPL |
Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs & Inclusion |
|
|
| EC |
European Commission |
| ECB |
European Central Bank |
| EES |
European Employment Strategy |
| EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
| EMCO |
European Commission Employment Committee |
| EPL |
Employment Protection Legislation |
| EPL-P |
Employment Protection Legislation – permanent/regular contracts |
| EPL-T |
Employment Protection Legislation – temporary contracts |
| EPSCO |
European Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council |
| ESF |
European Social Fund |
| ESL |
Early School Leaving |
| ESS |
European Social Survey |
| EST |
Employment Status Trajectories |
| ETUC |
European Trade Union Confederation |
| EU |
European Union |
| EU-LFS |
European Union Labour Force Survey |
| Eurostat |
Statistical Office of the European Union |
| EURES |
European Employment Services |
| Eurofound |
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions |
| EU-SILC |
European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions |
| EU2 |
2007 accession countries to the EU: Bulgaria and Romania |
| EU8 |
2004 accession countries to the EU: Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia |
| EU28 |
European Union 28 countries |
| EVS |
European Values Study |
| EWCS |
European Working Conditions Survey |
|
|
| FTE |
Full-Time Equivalent |
|
|
| GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
|
|
| HAPC |
Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort (regression model) |
|
|
| ICT |
Information/Communication Technologies Sector |
| ILO |
International Labour Organisation |
| ISCED |
International Standard Classification of Education |
| ISCO |
International Standard Classification of Occupations |
| ISEI |
International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status |
|
|
| KM |
Kaplan-Meier (estimator) |
|
|
| LABREF |
Labour Market Reforms Database |
| LFS |
Labor Force Survey |
| LIFO |
last-in first-out |
| LLL |
Life-Long Learning |
| LMI |
labor market intermediary |
| LMP |
Labour Market Policies |
|
|
| MISSOC |
Mutual Information System on Social Protection |
|
|
| NACE |
Statistical Classification of Economic Activities |
| NCDS |
National Child Development Study |
| NEET |
Not in Employment, Education or Training |
| NGO |
Non-Governmental Organization |
| NRP |
National Reform Program |
|
|
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OLM |
Occupational Labor Markets |
| OM |
Optimal Matching |
| OMC |
Open Method of Coordination |
| ONS-LS |
Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study |
|
|
| PES |
Public Employment Services |
| PIAAC |
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies |
| PLMPs |
Passive Labour Market Policies |
| PPS |
Purchasing Power Standards |
|
|
| R&D |
Research and Development |
|
|
| SES |
Structure of Earnings Survey |
| SMEs |
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises |
| STW |
School to Work |
| STYLE |
Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (FP7 project) |
|
|
| TAW |
Temporary Agency Work |
| TCN |
Third-Country National |
| TLM |
transitional labor market |
|
|
| UK-LFS |
UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey |
|
|
| VE |
Vocational Education |
| VET |
Vocational Education and Training |
| VoC |
Varieties of Capitalism |
|
|
| WVS |
World Values Survey |
|
|
| YEI |
Youth Employment Initiative |
| YG |
Youth Guarantee |
