You see this in the housing rental in constrained markets. When the minimum wage increases, the landlords can all just increase their rents, and the renters, with high moving costs, just pay. All the landlords do this, and eventually all the minimum wage gain is absorbed by the landlords. Makes me cynical that raising the minimum wage does anything other than drive inflation in the rental market. There are likely better policies to increase the quality of life of the bottom 50% than increasing the minimum wage, but our politicians have that lever, and get votes when they use it.