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Associate Professor

    Biography

    Riccardo Welters, PhD (Maastricht University, Netherlands) is currently Associate Professor in Economics at the College of Business, Law and Governance, Division Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University (JCU).

    Qualifications

    Associate Professor Welters graduated in economics from Maastricht University in 1997, including a semester at the University of Trento, Italy, as an Erasmus exchange student. He completed a PhD in economics from Maastricht University in 2005 studying employer recruitment behaviour re the long-term unemployed.

    He holds research fellowships at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, the Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, Australia and at the Cairns Institute, JCU, Australia.

    Experience

    Associate Professor Welters has more than 20 years of experience in (labour market) economics research and higher education in Australia and the Netherlands. He has been seconded to the positions of Head of Discipline—Economics, Acting Head—School of Business, and Head Academic Group—Economics and Marketing, all at JCU. He was Deputy Director—Centre of Full Employment and Equity at University of Newcastle.

    Welters has taught economics classes at bachelor, honours, masters and research higher degree level in the Netherlands, Australia and Papua New Guinea, next to substantial course coordination roles at JCU. He has supervised more than fifteen Honours/Masters/PhD students to completion at JCU.

    Welters has consulted widely with industry partners, either through consultancy arrangements (including Australian Defence Organisation, Townsville Enterprise Limited, Advance Cairns, and Townsville City Council) or through research partnerships (including ARC Linkage project LP130100344 with Youth+ Edmund Rice Education Australia, Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Northern Territory Department of Education, Catholic Education Office of Western Australia, The Brotherhood of St Laurence, Centacare Townsville, and the European Think Forward Initiative - a consortium of private sector companies Amazon Web Services, CEPR, DELL, Deloitte, IBM, ING).

    Research impact

    Associate Professor Welters has published more than 60 journal articles / book chapters / papers in conference proceedings and has published a substantial number of research reports for industry partners (google scholar: >800 citations; H-index: 17; I10-index: 27). His most recently published article ‘Homeownership, the unemployed and financial hardship’ is in the Journal of Housing Economics. Welters has presented his work at over 35 conferences / symposia across the world. He has served as Assessor for the Australian Research Council and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

    Professional service

    Associate Professor Welters is a regular media commentator on economic matters, particularly relevant to the North Queensland region.

    Research

    Research Interests

    Un(der)employment

    Casualisation of the Labour Market

    Financial Pressure

    Socio-economic Disadvantage

    Projects

    Output

    Thomas, Joseph; Welters, Riccardo (2018) The importance of belonging: the impact of young people’s b. Leiden, Netherlands: ...
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    Mustika, Putu L.; Welters, Riccardo; Setiasih, Naneng (2018) Tourist satisfaction and expenditures i. Abingdon, UK: ...
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    Daniel, Ryan; Fleischmann, Katja; Welters, Riccardo (2015) Growing the creative industries in Townsv. Townsville, QLD, Australia: ...
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    Welters, Riccardo (2013) The Australian Defence Organisation and tropical Australia: its socio-econo. Cairns, QLD, Australia: ...
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    Daniel, Ryan; Welters, Riccardo; Fourie, Jonathan (2013) Mapping the Creative Industries in Townsvil. ...
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    Welters, Riccardo; Lynch, Paul; Pryce, Josephine; Blackman, Anna; Murphy, Laurie (2013) FIFO workfor. Cairns, QLD...
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    Pryce, Josephine; Welters, Riccardo; Lynch, Paul; Murphy, Laurie; Blackman, Anna (2013) Identifying . Cairns, QLD...
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    Welters, Riccardo (2010) Atypical labour markets require atypical policy solutions. Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia: ...
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    Welters, Riccardo Anna Martinus Hubertus Maria (2005) Efficiency of Employment Subsidies and Firms' . Maastricht, the Netherlands: [Non-Research B...
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    Welters, Riccardo; Gerards, Ruud; Mellor, Kyran (2024) 'Homeownership, the unemployed and financial . Journal of Housing Economics, 64 . [DOI] ...
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    Gerards, Ruud; Welters, Riccardo (2023) 'Unemployment benefit eligibility requirements and perceived. Social Science Quarterly, 104 (4):907-917. [DOI] ...
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    Gerards, Ruud; Welters, Riccardo (2022) 'Does eliminating benefit eligibility requirements improve u. Applied Economics Letters, 29 (10):955-958. [DOI] ...
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    Roche, Siddarth; Sun, Sizhong; Welters, Riccardo (2022) 'Do Financial Constraints Reduce Process Inn. Economic Record, 98 (323):335-353. [DOI] ...
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    Gerards, Ruud; Welters, Riccardo (2022) 'Job search in the presence of a stressor: Does financial ha. Journal of Economic Psychology, 90 . [DOI] ...
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    Castorina, Diana; Welters, Riccardo (2022) 'Interregional migration: who decides to move?'. Bulletin of Applied Economics, 9 (1):97-114. [DOI] ...
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    Underwood, David; Sun, Sizhong; Welters, Riccardo A.M.H.M. (2020) 'The effectiveness of plain packag. Nature Human Behaviour, 4 :1273-1284. [DOI] ...
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    Fernandez, Cheryl Joy; Stoeckl, Natalie; Welters, Riccardo (2019) 'The cost of doing nothing in the . Climate and Development Journal, 11 (9):825-838. [DOI] ...
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    Welters, Riccardo; Lewthwaite, Brian; Thomas, Joseph; Wilson, Kimberley (2019) 'Re-engaged students’. International Jour, 23 (12):1315-133...
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    Gerards, Ruud; Welters, Riccardo (2019) 'Liquidity constraints, unemployed job search and labour mar. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, . [DOI] ...
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    Welters, Riccardo; Daniel, Ryan; Fleischmann, Katja (2018) 'Creative industries in a regional city: . Local Economy, 33 (1):63-84. [DOI] ...
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    Daniel, Ryan; Fleischmann, Katja; Welters, Riccardo (2018) 'Creativity in the 'Torrid' zone: policy,. International Journal of Cultural Poli, 24 (4):451-465. [DOI] ...
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    Nicholas, Christopher; Welters, Riccardo; Murphy, Laurie (2018) 'Does social capital help communitie. Regional Studies, 52 (12):1646-1657. [DOI] ...
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    Fleischmann, Katja; Welters, Riccardo; Daniel, Ryan (2017) 'Creative industries and regional economi. Australasian Journal of Regional Studi, 3 (2):217-242. ...
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    Nicholas, Christopher; Welters, Riccardo (2017) 'What drives long distance commuting into Australian. Journal of Rural Studies, 49 :140-150. [DOI] ...
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    Fleischmann, Katja; Daniel, Ryan; Welters, Riccardo (2017) 'Developing a regional economy through cr. Creative Industries Journal, 10 (2):119-138. [DOI] ...
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    Mustika, Putu; Welters, Riccardo; Ryan, Gerard Edward; D'Lima, Coralie; Sorongon-Yap, Patricia; Juta...
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    Daniel, Ryan; Fleischmann, Katja; Welters, Riccardo (2017) 'Professional development in the creative. Australian Journal of Career Developme, 26 (3):113-123. [DOI] ...
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    D'Lima, Coralie; Welters, Riccardo; Hamann, Mark; Marsh, Helene (2016) 'Using regional geographic sc. 128 :52-60. [DOI] ...
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    Nicholas, Christopher; Welters, Riccardo (2016) 'Exploring determinants of the extent of long distan. Australian Geographer, 47 (1):103-120. [DOI] ...
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    Welters, Riccardo; Mitchell, William; Muysken, Joan (2014) 'Self determination theory and employed j. Journal of Economic Psychology, 44 :34-44. [DOI] ...
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    Gerards, Ruud; Muysken, Joan; Welters, Riccardo (2014) 'Active labour market policy by a profit-maxi. BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 52 (1):136-157. [DOI] ...
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    Pryce, Josephine; Welters, Riccardo; Lynch, Paul; Blackman, Anna; Murphy, Laurie; Eagle, Lynne; Case...
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    Blackman, Anna; Welters, Riccardo; Murphy, Laurie; Eagle, Lynne; Pearce, Meryl; Pryce, Josephine; Ly...
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    Larson, Silva; Stoeckl, Natalie; Neil, Barbara; Welters, Riccardo (2013) 'Using resident perceptions. Ecological Economics, 94 :9-18. [DOI] ...
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    Mustika, Putu Liza Kusuma; Birtles, Alastair; Welters, Riccardo; Marsh, Helene (2012) 'The economic . Ecological , 79 :11-20...
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    Welters, Riccardo; Muysken, Joan (2008) 'Inferring employer search behaviour from wage subsidy parti. 15 (5):844-858. [DOI] ...
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    Bill, Anthea; Mitchell, Bill; Welters, Riccardo (2007) 'Job mobility and segmentation in Australian . 3 (3-4). [DOI] ...
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    Welters, Riccardo; Muysken, Joan (2006) 'Employer search and employment subsidies'. Applied Economics, 38 (12):1435-1448. [DOI] ...
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