small business sector's health. Previously this was difficult due to a lack of appropriate data. This paper fills this … QuickBooks Online Payroll subscriber data (QBO Payroll sample) from 333,000 businesses in the US, 66,000 in Canada, and 25,000 in … the UK. After comparing the QBO Payroll sample data to the official statistics, we remove the seasonal components and use …

This research examines the determinants of entrepreneurship in the initial transition from agriculture to industrial … production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms …