Research published today offers this astonishing statistic; a married man is a third more likely to get work than the average candidate. That is a bigger advantage than that conferred by further education! Having A-levels, by contrast, only gives an unemployed male a 22 per cent better chance of securing employment.
Why the benefit? Certainly, a married man might be more assiduous about job-hunting if he has a family to support. But then he might be more choosy because he can’t up sticks and dive into the job market with the mobility and flexibility some firms demand.
Perhaps it is simply that this bitterly decried and systematically undermined contract between two consenting adults, actually has some value? Far from being an anachronistic rite of passage, maybe it still acts as a milestone, signalling to the outside world that a person is capable of making a commitment and understands what responsibility entails.
via To Get A Job Get Wed | Marriage | unemployment | colin_brazier | Family Affairs | Sky News Blogs.
