"American investors may now be voting with their dollars and telling South Korean or Japanese companies that 'you now face a different decision matrix, '" says an American fund manager, who invests in Asian stocks.
The salary and graduation data from the states come from state governments and were analyzed by College Measures, a partnership between the American Institutes of Research (a research organization) and Matrix Knowledge (a consulting firm).
The great symbol of American mobility is morphing into a network device, a data-generating green machine plugged into a matrix of power grids, cloud computers and social media.