This paper proposes a new approach for enriching results for U.S. labor markets from the leading multi-regional CGE model, the GTAP model. Departing from the usual approach of expanding labor data in all economies in a model's database, our method expands only the U.S. labor data. Additionally,...

With a focus on the manufacturing sector across some member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the rate of surplus value and the rate of profit are broken down into analytical components to help understand what has produced their differences among the...