Gains from marriage

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 2,7, University of Kassel, course: Population Economics, language: English, abstract: Marriage is one of the most important establishments, which affect people ¿s life and satisfaction. Marital establishments regulate sexual relations and induce commitment between spouses. Marriage has positive effects, especially on spouses¿ health and their income (Stutzer and Frey, 2006, p. 326).

The purpose of this study is to analyze the existence of job-productivity difference between married couples and singles. The first and main part of the paper seeks to differentiate married males from single males both at work and home to assess marriage related performance dissimilarities (Mehay and Bowman, 2005, P. 63). Here some theoretical discussions are presented.