I worked on an earlier version with Hanna Frings ( @RWI_Leibniz) and Philipp vom Berge ( @iab_news) of a paper looking at an industry-specific min wage in Germany. The disemployment effect turns on "bite" intensity (we use the share of workers earning below MW). No surprise. https://twitter.com/maximananyev/status/1350359992004608000
Region-specific bite intensity goes from Q1 to Q4 here, where Q4 is the highest (largest share of workers below MW). The MW was introduced in 1997. Naturally, it pulls up wages in East Germany, where the bite is the highest (see above), but this causes employment to decline.
Anyway, here's the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-019-01661-0. Just Frings and vom Berge now since I decided to count myself out. (I had just moved to Australia, and I didn't have time to move the paper forward.)
High-impact minimum wages and heterogeneous regions

We estimate the effects of the introduction of and subsequent increases in a substantial minimum wage in Germany’s main construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-019-01661-0
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