Does raising the minimum wage reduce the number of low-wage jobs?

No.

"We also find no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages."

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/134/3/1405/5484905
Minimum wage increases reduce crime.

http://nber.org/papers/w25116 
Increasing the minimum wage improves kids' health.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26691 
“We find that raising the minimum wage increases earnings growth at the bottom of the distribution, and those effects persist and indeed grow in magnitude over several years.” https://twitter.com/kevinrinz/status/978982537266638849
https://twitter.com/JohnHolbein1/status/950011596914356224
"Overall the most up to date body of research from US, UK and other developed countries points to a very muted effect of minimum wages on employment...Importantly, this was
found to be the case even for the most recent ambitious policies."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/844350/impacts_of_minimum_wages_review_of_the_international_evidence_Arindrajit_Dube_web.pdf
"This [meta-analysis] finds no statistically significant aggregate adverse employment effect of the national minimum wage [in the U.K.] and also no publication bias in the minimum wage literature."

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1800/RR1807/RAND_RR1807.pdf
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