Marcia M.A. Schafgans, "Ethnic Wage Differences in Malaysia: Parametric
and Semiparametric Estimation of the Chinese-Malay Wage Gap", Journal
of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 13, No. 5, 1998, pp. 481-504.

The ASCII file malethn.s contains information on 8748 individuals (rows).
The 18 variables (columns) it contains are:

  PAIDWORK   Wage sector worker with reported wages     (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes)
  LWAGE      Logarithm of real hourly wage rate         (in M$)
  MEN        Gender: Man                                (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes)
  MALAY      Ethnicity: Malay                           (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes)
  CHINESE    Ethnicity: Chinese                         (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes)
  INDIAN     Ethnicity: Indian                          (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes)
  AGE        Age                                        (in years)
  AGESQ      Age squared / 100
  GEXPR      Potential Experience (Age-Years of Schooling-6) (in years)
  GEXPRSQ    Potential Experience squared / 100
  YPRIM      Years of primary schooling                 (in years)
  YSEC       Years of secondary schooling & above       (in years)
  FAIL       No certificate obtained at completed level (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes)
  URBAN      Residence urban (w/ population>1000)       (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes) 
  UNEARN     Household income from dividents, interest
                and rents received on propery and land  (in '0000 M$)
  HOUSEH     Household ownership of house (value)       (in '00000 M$)
  AMTLAND    Household landholding (acres)              (in '00 acres)
  UNEARNX    Household unearned income missing          (Dummy: 0=no, 1=yes)


The data are taken from the Second Malysian Family Life Survey (MFLS-2). The
MFLS-2 was developed by the RAND Corporation and Family Development Board of
Malaysia, with the support from the National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development and the National Instutute on Aging. The survey was
conducted between August 1988 and January 1989 in Peninsular Malaysia. The
data contains information from the 'New' and 'Senior' samples of this
survey.

The file malethn.s, which is in DOS format, is 1,032,283 bytes in size. It
is zipped in the file schafgans.zip. Unix users should use "unzip -a".