African-born immigrants to the US are more skilled, harder-working, and more ready to integrate than those who come from other parts of the world, says Bloomberg’s Justin Fox. Individuals from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala account for the lion’s share of immigrants in the US, and while they dominate the least-educated immigrant groups, they are also among the hardest-working. Other immigrant groups from countries such as India, Taiwan, Russia, and Bulgaria, are among the highest-educated but are not among those with the higher employment-population ratio. Fox notes, however, that their low employment rates are likely attributable to their being in the US to pursue further education, and not because of poor integration or laziness. Of all the immigrant groups assessed in Fox’s charts, African immigrants seem to have the best combination of characteristics: “If we want more high-skilled, hardworking, English-speaking, ready-to-integrate immigrants, it looks like the most obvious place to find them is in African countries where English is widely spoken.”