TVETipedia Glossary

Organisation:	National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Australia
Source:	Glossary of VET (2013 - online version continuously updated, Accessed in Jan. 2016)
Description:	The language of vocational education and training (VET) is complex and particularly prone to jargon and acronyms. The aim of this glossary is to provide a single up-to-date reference source for definitions of Australian VET-related terms, acronyms and organisations. The glossary is based on 'A glossary of Australian vocational education and training terms' which was published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in 2000. New content, sourced from recent NCVER publications, the VOCED database, websites of key Australian VET organisations, other VET glossaries and suggestions from NCVER staff, has been added. Website

Organisation:	Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Philippines
Source:	TVET glossaries of terms (2010)
Description:	The Glossary of Terms, 4th edition, provides definitions of TVET terms and terminologies commonly used in education, labor and employment and other TVET related areas in the Philippines. The complexity of the environment where TVET operates requires regular review and updating of TVET terminologies as systems, standards, processes, policies and programs continue to change. The provision of this glossary is intended to facilitate comprehension and better understanding as we move together in making TVET work for our people and country. p. iii

Government programmes that intervene in the labor market to help the unemployed find work usually grew out of earlier public works projects designed to combat widespread unemployment in the developed world during the interwar period.
Source: Wahba 2013, Global

Any information concerning the size and composition of the labour market or any part of the labour market; the way it or any part of it functions, its problems, the opportunities which may be available to it, and the employment-related intentions or aspirations of those who are part of it.
Source: ILO 2001, Global

LMI is variously defined as:
* Data about the workplace, including employment rates and salary information;
* Any information about the structure and working of a labour market and any factors likely to influence the structure and working of taht market, including jobs available, people available to do those jobs, the mechanisms that match the two, changes in the external and internal business environements; and
* essentially data, statistics and research about the workplace including things like unemployment rates, salary, demand for, and supply of, labour.
In the context of LMI for Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG), a distinction has been made between labour market information and labour market intelligence, where labour market information refers to raw quantitative or qualitative data found in original sources such as tables, spreadsheets, graphs and charts, with labour market intelligence relating to an interpretation of raw data, referring to subsets of information that has been subjected to further analysis.
Source: Warwick IER 2008, UK

(Labour market information systems) Systems, mechanisms or processes for gathering, organising, providing and analysing information about the state of the labour market, occupations and jobs, including key changes taking place within the employment, jobs and the occupations.
Source: EU commission (Skills panorama) 2015, Europe

A programme designed to increase the number of people in employment or to improve the employment prospects of a target group, e.g. by the payment of subsidies to businesses who take on long-term unemployed people, young people, etc.
Source: Wahba 2013, Global

Labour market scarring occurs when there is a negative or zero return to some form of participation in the labor market - either unemployment or a certian type of employment.
Source: World Bank (Social protection and labour) 2015, Indonesia