domestic

(adjective)

Of or relating to activities normally associated with the home, wherever they actually occur.

Related Terms

  • childbirth
  • animal husbandry

Examples of domestic in the following topics:

  • Alexander I's Domestic Reforms

  • Tariffs

    • Assume that there is an import tax levied on a good in a domestic country, Home.
    • Before a tariff is levied, the domestic price is at Pw, and the quantity demanded is at D (with quantity S provided domestically, and quantity D-S imported).
    • When the tariff is imposed, the domestic price of the good rises to Pt.
    • In this example, domestic producers and the government both gain from the import tariff, and domestic consumers lose.
    • This benefits domestic producers by increasing producer surplus, but domestic consumers see a small consumer surplus.
  • Spousal Abuse

    • The relationship between gender and domestic violence is a controversial topic.
    • Other sources argue that the rate of domestic violence against men is often inflated due to the practice of including self-defense as a form of domestic violence.
    • Determining how many instances of domestic violence actually involve male victims is difficult.
    • Male domestic violence victims may be reluctant to get help for a number of reasons.
    • Domestic violence also occurs in same-sex relationships.
  • Family Violence

    • 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
    • All forms of domestic abuse have one purpose: to gain and maintain control over the victim.
    • 3.3 million children witness domestic violence each year in the US.
    • These are known as the psychological effects of domestic violence.
    • These are the financial effects of domestic violence.
  • Domesticity and "Domestics"

    • The cult of domesticity or cult of true womanhood was a prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the nineteenth century in the United States and Great Britain.
    • Part of the separate spheres ideology, the cult of domesticity identified the home as women's "proper sphere. " Prescriptive literature advised women on how to transform their homes into domestic sanctuaries for their husbands and children.
    • The cult of domesticity affected married women's labor market participation in the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
    • "True women" were supposed to devote themselves to unpaid domestic labor and refrain from paid, market-oriented work.
    • The division between the domestic and public spheres had an impact on women's power and status.
  • Exporting

    • First, products in the maturity stage of their domestic life cycle may find new growth opportunities overseas, as Perrier chose to do in the US.
    • Third, firms who face seasonal domestic demand may choose to sell their products to foreign markets when those products are "in season" there.
    • Sales, whether foreign or domestic, are treated as domestic sales.
    • All sales are made through the firm's domestic sales department, as there is no export department.
    • Such semi-direct exporting can be handled in a variety of ways: (a) a combination export manager, a domestic agent intermediary that acts as an exporting department for several noncompeting firms; (b) the manufacturer's export agent (MEA) operates very much like a manufacturer's agent in domestic marketing settings; (c) a Webb-Pomerene Export Association may choose to limit cooperation to advertising, or it may handle the exporting of the products of the association's members and; (d) piggyback exporting, in which one manufacturer (carrier) that has export facilities and overseas channels of distribution handles the exporting of another firm (rider) noncompeting but complementary products.
  • Quotas

    • Quotas are limitations on imported goods, come in an absolute or tariff-rate varieties, and affect supply in the domestic economy.
    • Protect domestic industries and employment: By reducing the number of foreign imports, domestic suppliers must produce more to meet domestic demand.
    • By producing more, the suppliers must hire more domestic workers, increasing employment.
    • This hurts the domestic consumer, who experiences a loss in consumer surplus.
    • On the other hand, this very action benefits the domestic producer, who sees an increase in producer surplus.
  • Factors Associated with Divorce

    • Factors that may lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions.
    • While not conclusive, the predominate factors that lead marriages to end in divorce are infidelity, adultery domestic violence, midlife crises, inexperience, and addictions such as alcoholism and gambling.
    • Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one partner against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage or domestic partnership.
  • Jobs Argument

    • This argument is predicated on the idea that buying more domestically will drive up national production, and that this increased production will in turn result in a healthier domestic job market.
    • Domestic industries will not have to compete with foreign producers, and are therefore protected from losing marketshare to cheaper imports.
    • Offsetting the threats of outsourcing and trade imbalances and driving domestic purchasing, and thus domestic production, is done through a variety of political vehicles.
    • High tariffs will raise the cost for foreign producers to sell their goods in a domestic system, providing strategic advantages for local producers.
    • This will in turn damage global prospects for domestic suppliers.
  • Consequences of Banking Crises

    • Banking crises have a range of short-term and long-term repercussions, domestically and globally, that reduce economic output and growth.
    • Banking crises have a range of short-term and long-term repercussions, domestically and globally, that underline the severe repercussions of irresponsible banking practices, poor governmental regulation, and bank runs.
    • There is a distinctive cyclical nature to these adverse effects, as each are interconnected in a way that creates a domino effect across the domestic economic system.
    • While these domestic consequences are expected and, in many ways, intuitive, the global dependency upon foreign trade in modern markets has exacerbated these effects.
    • The domestic reduction of capital for businesses, income for consumers and tax revenue for governments ultimately results in a reduction of trade and economic activity for other economies.
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