• Christopher A Pissarides

An equilibrium theory of unemployment assumes that firms and workers maximize their payoffs under rational expectations and that wages are determined to exploit the private gains from trade. This book focuses on the modeling of the transitions in and out of unemployment, given the stochastic processes that break up jobs and lead to the formation of new jobs, and on the implications of this approach for macroeconomic equilibrium and for the efficiency of the labor market.This approach to labor market equilibrium and unemployment has been successful in explaining the determinants of the 'natural' rate of unemployment and new data on job and worker flows, in modeling the labor market in equilibrium business cycle and growth models, and in analyzing welfare policy. The second edition contains two new chapters, one on endogenous job destruction and one on search on the job and job-to-job quitting. The rest of the book has been extensively rewritten and, in several cases, simplified. “The unemployment story has many mansions, and this book owns one of them. It analyzes unemployment as a search-and-match-mediated equilibrium of flows through the labor market, set in motion by job destruction and job creation.

EQUILIBRIUM IN THE LABOUR MARKET WITH SEARCH FRICTIONS. Equilibrium vacancies and unemployment without a wage. Into unemployment, through a theory. US Labor Market Facts Theoretical Framework Model Evaluation Extensions Literature Required Readings: I Pissarides, C. (2000), Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, The.

Christopher A Pissarides

The new edition adds endogenous job destruction and on-the-job search to the story, and can fairly claim to tell you everything you always wanted to know about search unemployment, but didn't know whom to ask.” — Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor of Economics, emeritus, MIT.