government so the report on broader migration trends published today by the organization for economic co-operation and development comes right on cue. says asylum applications to o.e.c.d. countries fell by twenty five percent last year from the record high of one point six four million a year earlier applications to e.u. member states nearly hoft the study also looks at the impact that migration as on the economies of the receiving countries i asked the o.e.c.d. told us leverage to help compile the report what the most important findings are. all reported to we analyze among other things the migration flows to all we see countries and we observe a record high in two thousand and sixteen but a significant decline in two thousand and seventeen and in both cases actually germany was a driving force among the changes it was together with the united states of top fifty nation country in two thousand and sixteen but also experience a very significant decline mostly due to fear refugees arriving in two thousand and seventeen in terms of. employment and integration of refugees into the receiving countries the o.e.c.d. co