Areas of knowledge
Niels Jørgen works with municipalities and regions’ economy and financing, for instance in the form of municipal taxes, block subsidies and compensation systems. He also looks at how the different incentive structures affect the way municipalities solve their tasks. Moreover, he deals with macro-management of municipalities and regions, as well as issues relating to organisation of the public sector at task level.
Methods
Niels Jørgen primarily works with a combination of qualitative/explorative and quantitative/descriptive methods, often with a comparative angle.
Background
Niels Jørgen has worked with financial management for a considerable number of years in a county council, in the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of the Interior. Furthermore, he has worked as a research assistant at Aarhus University and as an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen in subjects relating to welfare economy and municipal and regional economy. He has also worked with project management as chairman of a number of workgroups and committees.