Logib-D

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In Logib-D ( "pay equity in the company - Germany") is an application that allows companies in Germany voluntarily and anonymously their charging structure under gender aspects can analyze.

aims

With Logib-D, companies should receive detailed information about the gender-related pay structure in the company or in individual parts of the company. Since the information can be evaluated for a reference year, a comparison over several years is possible.

With the help of the data from the remuneration test and the additional evaluations, those responsible in the company should find starting points on how an existing pay difference can be reduced and how a gender-oriented personnel policy can be implemented.

Logib-D aims to improve the transparency of the gender-specific pay structure. The aim is to provide impetus that ultimately helps to reduce the average income gap between women and men. Most recently, an unadjusted pay difference of 23 percent was found in Germany for 2008 and 2010 , which, according to the sustainability report of the federal government, should be reduced to 10 percent by 2020.

execution

With the Logib-D program, companies can find out whether any pay differences between women and men in their company can be traced back to comprehensible factors, such as: B. Educational differences.

With Logib-D, a detailed pay analysis is carried out for the company, which is based on the method of statistical regression analysis . Logib-D calculates the difference in pay between women and men, adjusted for personal and job-related characteristics of the employees. This means that the percentage difference in pay between women and men is determined that would result with the same number of years of training, service and the same (potential) professional experience as well as the same level of requirement and the same professional position. As a result, the influence of the gender feature on the wage amount can be determined, which remains under otherwise identical conditions. This results in the adjusted difference in pay.

In addition to the remuneration test, Logib-D provides further descriptive statistics on the features that are used in the extended regression. For example, the pay structure for women and men is shown by years of service or by qualification.

In addition, the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth offered free remuneration advice on the basis of Logib-D for a total of 200 companies in the years 2010 to 2012 by the consulting firm Baumgartner & Partner, for the online conception of Logib-D and the preparation of the reports lay. During this period, standardized consulting packages were given at regular intervals to 25 companies each that applied for Logib-D via the Internet portal. The companies were selected by an advisory board based on defined selection criteria.

Logib-D is provided via an internet portal of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (see web links). The page provides assistance with downloading and using the program. At the same time, interpretation aids and a sample data set are made available. In addition, the website provides information about dates and details on remuneration advice and provides an application form. Finally, the website offers information and current studies on equal pay.

In addition to the possibility of downloading Logib-D, the online version of the program can be used, with which data can be uploaded directly to the website and evaluated online. The online tool basically delivers the same results, but has improved user guidance and allows the data to be recorded more flexibly.

background

The Logib instrument was originally developed and tested in Switzerland by the Bureau for Labor and Social Policy Studies (BASS). In Switzerland it is primarily used to monitor equal pay between women and men in federal procurement. When applying for public contracts, Swiss companies are generally obliged to provide evidence of equal pay. In addition, Logib is used by private and public companies for self-tests.

The Swiss model was adapted to the German framework conditions by the BMFSFJ in 2009 and tested in pilot companies. Logib-D does not have a tolerance threshold, while in the Swiss Logib two tests are implemented, firstly whether there is significant wage inequality between the sexes and secondly whether the wage inequality is greater than the tolerance threshold of 5 percent applicable in the federal procurement system. A tolerance threshold was deliberately avoided in Germany due to the objective. The Logib-D remuneration test is aimed at companies in the private sector as well as at public companies .

Logib-D has been revised since its launch in 2009:

  • The requirement level now comprises 6 versions (original version Logib-D and Swiss Logib: 4 levels).
  • The professional position now also includes 6 characteristics (original version Logib-D and Swiss Logib: 5 levels).
  • Up to 5 career breaks can now be recorded explicitly, so that the number of years of service corrected for breaks is included in the calculations.
  • The adjusted wage gap is only determined in one value, namely as a percentage wage gap, which results when all available explanatory variables are taken into account (so-called "extended regression"). In the original version, the pay gap was also determined, just adjusted for personal characteristics (so-called "base regression").

These changes are important for the interpretation of the Logib-D results. The larger number of requirement levels, for example, increases the risk that existing gender inequalities such as the lower evaluation and classification - and thus the lower pay - of a female-dominated activity (e.g. a caring or a commercial activity) compared to a comparable, but higher-rated and thus better-paid male-dominated jobs (e.g. a technical job) are not recognized as (discriminatory) pay inequality in a Logib-D analysis, because the male job in Logib-D is assigned a higher requirement category than the poorly paid Women's activity.

It should also be noted that all literature on Logib-D from 2008 to 2011 refers to the originally published version of Logib-D from 2009 or to a previous version that only contained the "basic regression" and is therefore no longer up-to-date in some parts is.

See also

literature

  • Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth (a) (Ed.): Dossier Pay Inequality Between Women and Men. Berlin: 2009. p. 44.
  • Chicha, Marie-Therese: A comparative analysis of promoting pay equity: models and impacts, ILO Working paper 49. Geneva: 2006. PDF (accessed March 20, 2013).
  • Federal Office for Equality between Women and Men (Ed.): Federal Equal Wage Instrument - LOGIB, extract from a Logib evaluation to illustrate the presentation of the results. Bern: 2006.
  • Fratschner, Friedrich: Results of the Logib-D project on the pay gap with measures and conclusions, Baumgartner & Partner Management Consultants GmbH (ed.). Hamburg: 2013
  • Jochmann-Döll, Andrea: Logib - also logical? In: DGB-Info-Brief "Frau geht vor", No. 1 April 2009.
  • Kocher, Eva: Tariff Policy and General Equal Treatment Act, Ed. Verd.i Federal Administration. Berlin: 2007.
  • Strub, Silvia: Checking compliance with equal pay between women and men in federal procurement. Report on the pilot phase; Office for Labor and Social Policy Studies (Ed.). Bern: 2004.
  • Strub, Silvia: Methodical procedure for checking equal pay between women and men in federal procurement, Federal Office for Equality between Women and Men (ed.). Bern: 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (BMFSFJ 2009: 44)
  2. ↑ Press release of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth: "Equal Pay Day 2009: Dossier on pay inequality and the Logib-D instrument presented"
  3. ↑ Version history ( Memento from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Coordination Office Logib-D.