More proficiency, higher pay? Evidence from IT adoption in Taiwan

As IT has developed and become more and more user friendly, there is no extra premia for complex computer skills in the new industrialized country - Taiwan - where IT industries are especially intensive. Workers with complex computer skills have even negative returns for advanced level. Most basic skills have positive returns. However, we find no additional premia beyond two years of experience of computer use. There are significant returns to English proficiency when control for ability of learning computer for non-user as well as using experience.