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In January 2010, Haiti was struck by the most severe earthquake in its ever troubled history, an event which aroused an unprecedented worldwide mobilization. The country has since endured a series of natural disasters (floods, epidemics, etc.). Taking opportunity of the seism’s fifth commemoration, this article questions the place of youths in this exceptional context. It focuses on their integration into the labour market, given that employment remains by far Haitian people’s first source of income, and the only means of survival for the poorest. Have the youths been spared, or have they, on the contrary, been sacrificed as the generational “week link”? The authors’ dynamic approach is based on the unpublished results of the first post-seism survey, conducted late 2012 by the Haitian Statistical Institute late, compared to the results of a similar survey conducted in 2007.