Christopher Pissarides wurr as Söhn vun Antonios un Evdokia Pissarides boren un studeer van 1967 bit 1971 Wertschapswetenschapen an de University of Essex, wo he 1970 sien Bachelor un 1971 sien Master kreeg. 1971 hett 1973 he sien Dokter an de London School of Economics makt. Sien vun Michio Morishima betrüet Dissertation droggt den Titel Individual Behaviour in Markets with Imperfect Information. Nah en kört Tätigkeit för de Central Bank of Cyprus weer he 1974 bit 1976 Lecturer för Ökonomie an de University of Southampton, ehe he wedder an de London School of Economics wessel. Dort weer he 1976 bit 1982 Lecturer un 1982 bit 1986 Reader för Wertschapswetenschap. Siet 1986 is Perfesser för dat Fack. Siet 1994 forsch he buterdem an dat Centre for Economic Policy Research un siet 2001 an dat Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. Gastprofessuren hebbt hüm an de Harvard University un da National Bureau of Economic Research (1979–1980), de Princeton University (1984), da Europäisch Hochschulinstitut Florenz (1989), de University of California, Berkeley (1990–1991), dat Institut für Höhere Studien Wien (1992), de University of California, Los Angeles (1996) un an de Yale University (2000) führt.
Pissarides arbeitet över de Wesselwirkung tüschen Arbeitsmarkt un Makroökonomie, insbsünner över Arbeitslosigkeit, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Wassdom un Strukturwannel.
Siet 1986 is he mit Francesca Michela Cassano verheiraadt. He hett een Söhn un een Dochter. Sien Hobbys sünd Kooken, Gordenarbeit un Gahn.
Labour Market Adjustment. Microeconomic Foundations of Short-Run Neoclassical and Keynesian Dynamics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1976, ISBN 0-521-21064-X.
Equilibrium Unemployment Theory. Basil Blackwell, Oxford [u. a.] 1990, ISBN 0-631-15213-X; 2. Auflage, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 2000, ISBN 0-262-16187-7.
as Herutgever mit Jeffrey A. Frankel: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005. National Bureau of Economic Research, MIT Press Cambridge, Mass. [u. a.] 2007, ISBN 0-262-56229-4.
as Herutgever mit Tito Boeri un Daniela Del Boca: Women at Work. An Economic Perspective. A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Oxford University Press, Oxford [u. a.] 2005, ISBN 0-19-928188-2.
Artikel (Auswahl)
The Role of Relative Wages and Excess Demand in the Sectoral Flow of Labour. In: Review of Economic Studies. Band 45, Nr. 3, Oktober 1978, S. 453–467.
Job Matchings with State Employment Agencies and Random Search. In: Economic Journal. Band 89, Nr. 356, Dezember 1979, S. 818–833.
From School to University. The Demand for Post-Compulsory Education in Britain. In: Economic Journal. Band 92, Nr. 367, September 1982, S. 654–667.
Search Intensity, Job Advertising, and Efficiency. In: Journal of Labor Economics. Band 2, Nr. 1, Januar 1984, S. 128–143.
Efficient Job Rejection. In: Economic Journal. Band 94, Nr. 376a, 1984, S. 97–108.
Short-run Equilibrium Dynamics of Unemployment Vacancies, and Real Wages. In: American Economic Review. Band 75, Nr. 4, September 1985, S. 676–690.
Unemployment and Vacancies in Britain. In: Economic Policy. Band 3, Nr. 3, 1986, S. 499–559.
Search, Wage Bargains and Cycles. In: Review of Economic Studies. Band 54, Nr. 3, Juli 1987, S. 473–483.
mit Jonathan Wadsworth: Unemployment and the Inter-regional Mobility of Labour. In: Economic Journal. Band 99, Nr. 397, September 1989, S. 739–755.
mit R. Jackman und Richard Layard: On Vacancies. In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics. Band 51, Nr. 4, November 1989, S. 377–394.
Loss of Skill during Unemployment and the Persistence of Employment Shocks. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Band 107, Nr. 4, November 1992, S. 1371–1391.
mit Charles Bean: Unemployment, consumption and growth. In: European Economic Review. Band 37, Nr. 4, Mai 1993, S. 837–854.
mit Dale Mortensen: Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment. In: Review of Economic Studies. Band 61, Nr. 3, Juli 1994, S. 397–415.
Search Unemployment with On-the-Job Search. In: Review of Economic Studies. Band 61, Nr. 3, Juli 1994, S. 457–475.
The impact of employment tax cuts on unemployment and wages. The role of unemployment benefits and tax structure. In: European Economic Review. Band 42, Nr. 1, Januar 1998, S. 155–183.
mit Dale Mortensen: Unemployment Responses to 'Skill-Biased' Technology Shocks. The Role of Labour Market Policy. In: Economic Journal. Band 109, Nr. 455, April 1999, S. 242–265.
mit Petrongolo Barbara: Looking into the Black Box. A Survey of the Matching Function. In: Journal of Economic Literature. In: American Economic Association. Band 39, Nr. 2, Juni 2001, S. 390–431.
