PEOPLE PATTERNS
Some Immigrant Groups</br></br>Surpass Native Yanks</br></br>IMMIGRANTS to the U.S. generally have less education, higher unemployment rates and lower earnings than native-born Americans. But within many ethnic groups, immigrants fare better in some ways than native-born people.</br></br>One in four immigrants age 25 to 54 has no high-school education, according to a 1989 Census Bureau survey analyzed by economist Joseph R. Meisenheimer II for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fewer than 4% of working-age, native-born Americans have as little schooling.</br></br>Both immigrant and native-born Hispanics have less schooling than average. Hispanics account for nearly half of the working-age immigrant population, but 43% of Hispanic immigrants have no high-school education, triple the proportion of native-born Hispanics.