But recently concerns have arisen that the technical advances of our times may be particularly destructive in replacing jobs (the dystopian variant of technopessimism, according to Joel Mokyr (2017)). David Autor and Anna Salomons (2017) forcefully argue that this has not been the case in history, despite such concerns having emerged periodically over the last 200 years.
Covering 19 advanced economies between 1970 and 2007, they find that productivity growth has been mildly positive for aggregate employment.