Labor market conditions in Greece have severely deteriorated during the crisis, affecting youths the most. Using the Greek crisis as a case-study, this paper examines the role of the family as a social safety net for its young members. Specifically, we test the relationship between youth labor outcomes and parental co-residence, whether this relationship has become stronger during the crisis, and the degree to which the relationship is causal. Our results confirm that the parental home is a refuge both for jobless youth and for those in poorly paid, insecure jobs, and this role has intensified during the crisis. We find no reverse causality between co-residence and employment status for young men, and significant reverse causality for women. This finding implies that all youths live in the parental home when they are in need themselves, but it is young women not men who live with parents when parents are in need or for cultural reasons.

希腊的劳动力市场状况在危机期间严重恶化，对年轻人的影响最大。本文以希腊危机为案例研究，考察了家庭作为其年轻成员的社会安全网的作用。具体来说，我们测试了青年劳动成果与父母共同居住之间的关系，这种关系在危机期间是否变得更强，以及这种关系在多大程度上是因果关系。我们的研究结果证实，父母之家是失业青年和从事低薪、不稳定工作的人的避难所，并且在危机期间这一角色得到了加强。我们发现年轻男性的同居和就业状况之间没有反向因果关系，而女性则存在显着的反向因果关系。这一发现表明，所有青少年在自己需要时都住在父母家中，