Some have suggested it should turn its large foreign population (over 12% of the total) into an asset.
Although first-rank painters such as Petrus Christus and Hans Memling found patrons among the local nobility, they catered specifically to the large foreign population in Bruges.
To give a sense of the possible magnitudes involved, however, Table 2 shows the estimated size of a monthly cash grant for all adults age 20 and older who are not employed in government that could be financed through the complete removal of energy subsidies as estimated by the IMF for 2011.26 Figures are particularly high in countries with large foreign populations.
But New Jersey -- which already had a large foreign-born population -- gained another half-million immigrants in the 1990's.
The trend marks a major shift in migration patterns by the largest foreign population in the US.
The educational community of Malaga is of a peculiar and heterogeneous nature that combines a large foreign section of the population that was the result of tourism (since the seventies in the past century) with other migratory phenomena that are shared with other regions of Spain.
The number of foreigners is growing, especially in the major urban areas; people from Japan, the United States (including members of the military), and China make up the largest foreign populations, although they still constitute only small fractions.
As compared to the rest of the State, Wayne County has a smaller white population (55.1% vs. 81.2%), a larger African-American population (40.5% vs. 14.2%), and a larger foreign-born population (6.7% vs. 5.3%) [26].
It has the luxury of being able to set its population growth rate; Germany lets in far fewer immigrants than would like to come.What Ms Merkel is saying, then, is that in Germany's view fiscal stimulus is not worth the cost of a larger foreign-born population.
When looking at labor market flows, using the longitudinal component of the Italian LFS, I find that a larger predicted foreign population significantly decreases natives' probability of worsening the schedule or remaining employed at nonstandard hours.
