This is exactly what the cited research in the original post did. It looked at contiguous US states, where one raised the minimum wage and one did not. It mea

This is exactly what the cited research in the original post did. It looked at contiguous US states, where one raised the minimum wage and one did not. It measured the gain or loss in jobs with all these "natural experiments". This study found minimal effects on employment when comparing the states that raised minimum wages against those that did not.