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The aim of this paper is to adapt related variety calculations to the special case of
Hungarian regional development in the late post-socialist transition period. First, we test
regional employment growth in rising and declining regions separately, in order to
distinguish those areas that could cope with economic transition and those that could not.
We find that related variety speeded up growth in the dynamic regions but at the same time
pushed lagging regions onto a downhill path; this may have been due to their inflexible
industry structure. Following this, regional variety measures are decomposed into domestic
and foreign subsets, and a new variable, ownership variety, is introduced. Findings suggest
that regional employment growth is due to related variety in the domestic set in earlier
phases, whereas the economy has evolved into a stage in which relatedness among foreign
firms enhances regional employment growth significantly
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