As a business person I know that when costs rise, we move to mitigate because that is what survival requires.  Usually when labor get expensive,  we look at how to re-engineer the process such that we can lower the pressure ( ie: lower labor requirements to deliver the product) . Especially if the market will not bear the price increases required to absorb it. 

I have seen the minimum wage increases in action. Operating hours get cut. Processes get changed, but the bottom line is clear and present. If you have $100 to deliver something and that used to pay for 10 people an hour, the $100 does not change but the  amount of people do. If you can now only  provide 6.5 people then you must find a way to make up for that difference. The net result looks a lot like automation, lowered quality, some increased  market price,  but definitely less people.  (ie it will cost jobs)

It is all logic. There is no science required 

Minimum wage is not the solution because it is not the problem.