Maxime Pirot is an economist at the Research and Statistic Directorate of the French Ministry of Labour (DARES). He holds a Master's degree from Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Since October 2021, he has been a junior researcher at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, University of Milan. He has also been a research assistant at the Paris School of Economics.