Claire Montialoux

Sciences-Po Paris & CNRS
Department of Economics
28 rue des Saints-Pères, F403a
75007 Paris
claire.montialoux@sciencespo.fr

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I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Sciences-Po Paris and a CNRS researcher. I am labor economist studying how labor market policies and institutions affect wage inequality, in a global and historical perspective. I am affiliated with the CEPR, IZA, and RF-Berlin.

TEACHING

PUBLICATIONS

• Minimum Wages and Racial Inequality (with Ellora Derenoncourt), 2021, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136(1):169-228. [Slides]. [Appendix & data webpage].

• The Pass-Through of Minimum Wages into US Retail Prices: Evidence from Supermarket Scanner Data (with Tobias Renkin and Michael Siegenthaler), September 2020, forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics. [Appendix].

WORKING PAPERS

• What Do (Thousands of) Unions Do?  Union-Specific Pay Premia and Inequality (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Lorenzo Lagos and François Gérard), August 2025.

• Minimum Wages and Informality (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Lorenzo Lagos and François Gérard), October 2025.

WORK IN PROGRESS

• Racial Inequality, Minimum Wage Spillovers, and the Informal Sector (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Lorenzo Lagos and François Gérard).

• Equalizing the Great Equalizer: The Long-Run Consequences of School Funding Reforms (with Sebastian Otero and Roberto Hsu Rocha).

• Revisiting the Workweek Reduction Debate: Lessons from France’s 35-Hour Policy (with Pauline Carry, Elio Nimier-David, Nina Roussille, and Alexandra Roulet).

• Racial Inequality in Multiracial Societies  (with Ellora Derenoncourt, Yajna Govind,  and Paolo Santini).

• State Unemployment Insurance Rules: a New Long-Run Database (1937-2020), with Ellora Derenoncourt and Monica Essig Aberg.