Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment

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Labor market policies and IMF advice in advanced economies during the Great Recession (2013, unknown): “19Evidence on the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment is discussed in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (2006), Betcherman (2012), and Schmitt (2013).”
Behavioural Insights and (Un)healthy Dietary Choices: a Review of Current Evidence (2018, background): “While advocates emphasize that it improves the life of the less affluent, opponents highlight its potentially adverse effects on employment and job creation (e,g, de Linde et al. 2013; Doucouliagos and Stanley 2009; Schmitt 2013).”
Improving or disappearing: Firm-level adjustments to minimum wages in China (2018, background): “…from the US) points to little or no employment effects of minimum wages (Card and Krueger, 1994; Dickens et al., 1999; Dube et al., 2010; see Schmitt, 2013, for a review).3 However, the results here continue to be debated (see Dube et al., 2010; Allegretto et al., 2011 Neumark et al., 2014,…”
Difference-in-Differences with multiple time periods (2018, methodology): “Despite the popularity of this approach, Wooldridge (2005), Chernozhukov et al.”
Regulating TNCs: Should Uber and Lyft set their own rules? (2019, result): “A recent meta-study [37] found that it is equally likely to find positive or negative employment effect of the minimum wage in the literature; a similar observation is made in [38].”