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Yes, they have. I don't know about comparing the real dollar value of slaves to the value of a worker in the 21st Century, but historians have certainly explored the economics of a slave-based economy versus a free-enterprise economy.
The late Kenneth Stampp notably concluded that a slave-based economy was drastically less efficient (and obviously, immoral and hideous) than one in which employers competed for the services of free workers.
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Stampp, Kenneth M. Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. Knopf, 1956.
Kolchin, Peter. Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Belknap Press, 1987.
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before The Civil War. Oxford University Press, 1995.