Report; Immigrants vital cog in upstate economy.
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- November
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 The 200,000 immigrants who live in the major upstate metropolitan areas have a greater proportion of college graduates than the native-born population, according to a a Federal Reserve Bank report released today.
  They work disporporitonately in highly skilled fields like medicine, science and research, according to the study, which is based on census data. The report looked at immigrant populations in the Buffalo, Rochester, Syrause/Utica and Albany metro regions.
 While the immigrants account for only 4 percent of the college graduates in the region, they make up 18 percent of the total number of physicians and surgeons, according to the report.
   The makeup of the immigrant population in these areas is far different that of the nation or of downstate, with proportionally more Asian and European natives and fewer from Latin America than the rest of the country.
 “The concentration in highly skilled occupations imply that these immigrants are contributing disproportionately more to the region’s growth in human capital than to its growth in population,’’ the report says.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
