This paper puts emphasis on the earnings development at the lower end of the earnings distribution and its development over time. The main objective is to provide more insight into the mechanism of impoverishment and marginalisation of various groups of people as well as the dynamics.

This paper puts emphasis on the earnings development at the lower end of the earnings distribution and its development over time. The main objective is, to provide more insight into the mechanism of impoverishment and marginalisation of various groups of people as well as the dynamics.

The end of the Cold War, the increasing importance of international operations, and the development of a co-ordinated European security and defence strategy have led many countries in Europe to reform their national system of military defence – Belgium in 1994, the Netherlands in the second...